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"The photo volume 'A Folktale From Vietnam. Speeding Motorcycles and Roasted Lemongrass' by Gianpaolo ARENA is the result of eight years of research and the production of a series of photographs taken in 2013, 2015 and 2018 during the Italian photographer's travels through Vietnam. Content
Both the photographs and the essays examine the complex bond between landscape and human civilization. In this sprawling sequence of urban growth, places and portraits we find continual antitheses of periods and customs that sometimes clash, at others meld. This project captures fragments of different rituals and ways of life of the contemporary Vietnamese society. The author offer a glimpse of Vietnam’s present and future cities between time and decay, culture and capitalism, folklore and propaganda. The book contains beneath the photographs and the foreword by Gianpaolo ARENA also essays by Francesco Bergamo, Simona Galateo as well as by Fabio SeveroAdditional information
The photo volume 'A Folktale From Vietnam. Speeding Motorcycles and Roasted Lemongrass' is designed by Italian Chiara CAPODICI
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