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Personal statement by the Magnum photographer
"I have seen the future and it is now and it is China. There is no need for the past. It can be erased. A new happiness is being constructed, an approximation of joy, better than the real thing." (Christopher ANDERSON)
Background information, content
"The photographs by US-American MAGNUM photographer Christopher ANDERSON in his photographic volume 'Approximate Joy' portray a contemporary China in the midst of perpetual reinvention. The images are tightly cropped and extremely close up, bringing the viewer to an intimate distance where all context is removed, except for the ambient artificial light that illuminates the faces, giving only the sensual information of the physical form allowing the viewer the indiscreet pleasure of staring at another human face and wondering who the individual might be or what they might be thinking about at the moment of the photograph. These photographs are not a documentary about what people do. Rather they are a search for connection and recognition of self." (© Stanley / Barker, 2018)
Additional information
The here offered photographic volume 'Approximate Joy' by Christopher ANDERSON is from the 1st print run, autographed by the Magnum photographer. Collector's edition (1 of 30) with a beautiful c-type print produced by spectrum printing on metallic paper, also signed. Book with print and yellow colored slipcase.