"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...
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"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."--Publisher's website
1 cigarette box, 104 unnumbered pages,
9 x 6 cm, 9 x 6 cm
Notes:
Book is housed in a paper cigarette box
Gold on edges of the text
Images are from negatives salvaged as part of Thomas Sauvin's Silvermine project 2009-2013. Sauvin amassed an archive of half a million negatives that had been sent to a recycling plant in Beijing to be filtered for their silver nitrate content
