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Silvermine / Thomas Sauvin.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection N7433.4.S28 A7 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sauvin, Thomas, 1983-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sauvin, Thomas, 1983-.
- Sauvin, Thomas.
- Artists' books--China--Beijing.
- Artists' books.
- China--Social life and customs--20th century--Photographs.
- China.
- Photobooks.
- photobooks.
- Manners and customs.
- China--Beijing.
- Genre:
- photobooks.
- Photobooks
- Photographs
- Photobooks.
- Artists' books.
- Physical Description:
- 5 volumes : color photographs ; 8 x 11 cm
- Other Title:
- Title in Chinese on inside of each volume: Yin kuang
- Title in Chinese on inside of each volume: 银矿
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : Archive of Modern Conflict, 2013.
- Summary:
- "Silvermine is a set of five photo albums each containing 20 prints. The negatives were salvaged from a recycling plant on the edge of Beijing, where they had been sent to be filtered for their silver nitrate content. Between 2009 and 2013, Beijing-based collector Thomas Sauvin amassed, archived and edited more than half a million negatives destined for destruction."--Publisher's website.
- Notes:
- Limited to 200 copies.
- "2013.05.30. Silver mine / Thomas Sauvin ; Yin kuang / Suwen"--Inside of each volume.
- "2013.05.30. Silver mine / Thomas Sauvin ; 银矿 / 苏文"--Inside of each volume.
- ISBN:
- 9780957049017
- 0957049013
- OCLC:
- 881324159
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