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Sahel - The End of the Road (Hardcover)
Sebastiao Salgado; Foreword by Orville Schell; Introduction by Fred Ritchin; Afterword by Eduardo Galeano; Designed by Lelia Wanick Salgado
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In 1984 Sebastiao Salgado began what would be a fifteen-month
project of photographing the drought-stricken Sahel region of
Africa in the countries of Chad, Ethiopia, Mali, and Sudan, where
approximately one million people died from extreme malnutrition and
related causes. Working with the humanitarian organization Doctors
Without Borders, Salgado documented the enormous suffering and the
great dignity of the refugees. This early work became a template
for his future photographic projects about other afflicted people
around the world. Since then, Salgado has again and again sought to
give visual voice to those millions of human beings who, because of
military conflict, poverty, famine, overpopulation, pestilence,
environmental degradation, and other forms of catastrophe, teeter
on the edge of survival. Beautifully produced, with thoughtful
supporting narratives by Orville Schell, Fred Ritchin, and Eduardo
Galeano, this first U.S. edition brings some of Salgado's earliest
and most important work to an American audience for the first time.
Twenty years after the photographs were taken, "Sahel: The End of
the Road" is still painfully relevant. Born in Brazil in 1944,
Sebastiao Salgado studied economics in Sao Paulo and Paris and
worked in Brazil and England. While traveling as an economist to
Africa, he began photographing the people he encountered. Working
entirely in a black-and-white format, Salgado highlights the larger
meaning of what is happening to his subjects with an imagery that
testifies to the fundamental dignity of all humanity while
simultaneously protesting its violation by war, poverty, and other
injustices. 'The planet remains divided,' Salgado explains. 'The
first world in a crisis of excess, the third world in a crisis of
need.' This disparity between the haves and the have-nots is the
subtext of almost all of Salgado's work.
A lively tour through experimental Chinese photography from the
early 1990s to today  The past thirty years were dynamic,
transformative decades in Chinese photography. Artists exposed to
recent work from around the globe experimented with photography in
newly conceptual and expressive ways, and their art from this
period offers a portrait of a country at a moment of rapid
urbanization, globalization, and cultural foment. A Window Suddenly
Opens reveals the key role that photography has played in
questioning and refashioning the aesthetic and social status quo of
modern Chinese society for the past three decades. Â
Alongside prescient works by Cao Fei, Lin Tianmiao, Rong Rong, Song
Dong, Wang Qingsong, Zhang Huan, Zhang Peili, and many other
artists, essays and interviews by scholars and curators explore the
history of experimental photography in China and the artistic
transformations of the digital age. The book also features texts
written between 1994 and 2014 by Chinese artists, some published
for the first time here in English, which offer essential insights
into their ideas and experiences as they forged new creative paths.
To explore further, readers can instantly access artist videos
inside this book with Hirshhorn Eye, the Hirshhorn Museum’s
award-winning image-recognition technology. Â Published in
association with the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Â
Exhibition Schedule: Â Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
(November 4, 2022–January 7, 2024)
By now everyone knows the basic facts of China's rise to
pre-eminence over the past three decades. But how did this
erstwhile sleeping giant finally manage to arrive at its current
phase of dynamic growth? How did a century-long succession of
failures to change somehow culminate in the extraordinary dynamism
of China today? By examining the lives of eleven influential
officials, writers, activists and leaders whose contributions
helped create modern China, Wealth and Power addresses these
questions. This fascinating survey moves from the lead-up to the
first Opium War through to contemporary opposition to single-party
rule. Along the way, we meet titans of Chinese history,
intellectuals and political figures. By unwrapping the intellectual
antecedents of today's resurgent China, Orville Schell and John
Delury supply much-needed insight into the country's tortured
progression from nineteenth-century decline to twenty-first-century
boom. By looking backward into the past to understand forces at
work for hundreds of years, they help us understand China today and
the future that this singular country is helping shape for all of
us.
In this arresting chronicle of one tumultuous year in China's
love-hate relationship with the West, Orville Schell brings us a
revealing analysis of the Chinese reform movement.
While Americans are generally aware of China's ambitions as a
global economic and military superpower, few understand just how
deeply and assertively that country has already sought to influence
American society. As the authors of this volume write, it is time
for a wake-up call. In documenting the extent of Beijing's
expanding influence operations inside the United States, they aim
to raise awareness of China's efforts to penetrate and sway a range
of American institutions: state and local governments, academic
institutions, think tanks, media, and businesses. And they
highlight other aspects of the propagandistic "discourse war" waged
by the Chinese government and Communist Party leaders that are less
expected and more alarming, such as their view of Chinese Americans
as members of a worldwide Chinese diaspora that owes undefined
allegiance to the so-called Motherland. Featuring ideas and policy
proposals from leading China specialists, China's Influence and
American Interests argues that a successful future relationship
requires a rebalancing toward greater transparency, reciprocity,
and fairness. Throughout, the authors also strongly state the
importance of avoiding casting aspersions on Chinese and on Chinese
Americans, who constitute a vital portion of American society. But
if the United States is to fare well in this increasingly
adversarial relationship with China, Americans must have a far
better sense of that country's ambitions and methods than they do
now.
An expose of the inner workings of the Chinese government and the
crackdown on the Tiananmen Square riots. On the night of June 3-4,
1989, Chinese troops violently crushed the largest pro-democracy
demonstrations in the history of the communist regime. In this
collection of hundreds of internal government and Communist Party
documents, secretly smuggled out of China, we learn how these
events came to pass from behind the scenes. The material reveals
how the most important decisions were made; and how the turmoil
split the ruling elite into radically opposed factions. The book
includes the minutes of the crucial meetings at which the Elders
decided to cashier the pro-reform Party secretary Zhao Ziyang and
to replace him with Jiang Zemin, to declare martial law, and
finally to send the troops to drive the students from the Square.
Just as the Pentagon Papers laid bare the secret American decision
making behind the Vietnam War and changed forever our view of the
nation's political leaders, so too has The Tiananmen Papers altered
our perception of how and why the events of June 4 took the shape
they did.
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