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Until Death Do Us Part
Shuangxi 双喜

Item date(s): July 2018 (2015?)

Thomas Sauvin


Pages: unpaged
Size: 87mm


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.



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