Place publication: China Publisher: Jiazazhi Press ISBN: 978-988-12631-0-0
Additional notes: Red cigarette box with cover and contents showing wedding photographs incorporating cigarettes.
This is a fourth edition of 2000 copies.
Author's name: Xian?
http://www.beijingsilvermine.com/photobooks/
"Until Death Do Us Part" focuses on the unexpected role cigarettes play in Chinese weddings. As a token of appreciation, it is customary for the bride to light a cigarette for each and every man invited. The bride and the groom are then invited to play some cigarette-smoking games of an unprecedented ingenuousness. This publication pays homage to a tradition in which love and death walk hand in hand. These photos come from the Beijing Silvermine project, an archive of half a million negatives salvaged over the years from a recycling plant on the edge of Beijing.