Humanizing China - Part 3 (Desires)



1. Rental rooms of the 'working girls'



2. Women doing sword-play exercises



3. Customers at curbside hairdresser looks at pedestrians



4. Two old women get their hair curled for the New Year



5. Curbside beauty parlor



6. Traditional method of facial hair removal by string is applied to leg hairs



7. Female horse ranger applies make-up before going on duty



8. Shadow play is still popular in places where television has not arrived



9. On the prison parade ground, the music band rehearses



10. Prisoners practice qigong in prison



11. Death row female inmate hopes for a lighter sentence



12. At a banquet, the performers break into disco dancing



13. A woman runs a home for more than 20 mentally handicapped children with her own money



14. In the scenic tourist zone, a taoist monk gives a reading over the mobil phone



15. The new-style scientific life sign reader



16. Outside a rental home, a young man fools around with a prostitute



17. At the curbside restaurant, a diner harrasses a female pedestrian



18. Two people arrested for illicit sexual transaction at a hair salon



19. Minority group members have their photos taken



20. Free karaoke for migrant workers



21. Retired people entertain themselves



22. Retired people practice chorus singing



23. Bird fighters congregate together



24. Tricycle cab drivers play cards while they wait for business;

a loser has to put a stone slab on the head



25. Fishermen uses the beach as a natural soccer field



26. A photo before jumping into the water in winter



27. Changing in public



28. A winter swim in Beijing



29. A citizen exercises in a public park



30. The gymasium is full of people



31. Peasants exercise in front of the Temple of the Dragon King



32. The hutong (alleyway) is a basketball field



33. Acupuncture for weight loss



34. A woman in a Chinese traditional dress stands underneath a sign



35. Chinese traditional dress comes back into fashion



36. Instruction at he first school for hand models in China



37. A priest teaches new converts how to make the sign of the cross



38. Lamas rehearsing for the annual dance



39. The Living Buddha approaches



40. Joint meeting of Buddhists and Taoists



41. 95-year-old woman dresses in opera costume for her birthday celebration;

she is being carried onto the stage by her grandsons



42. Hakka people pay respect to their ancestors on New Year's Eve



43. A prosperous peasant family displays their family tree



44. Banners on sale for the Spring festival



45. Parents wait outside the school's gate while their children take exams inside



46. Trainees at a performance troupe



47. AIDS children line up before class



48. The "Project of Hope" is being set upon isde the People's National Congress hall



49. In front of Tienanmen, a man displays the photo of his deceased wife

to show that both of them have fulfilled the wish to visit here once



50. Peasant woman selling bras and stockings at the village fair in Yunnan



51. Peeking at the male models performing in front of the stage



52. Taking measurements of the model contest entrants



53. Preparing for the model competition



54. The first ever clothing model show in Beijing



55. Curious spectators at the first Yunnan Province bodybuilding championships



56. Rock 'n roll music fans



57. Young people have fun all night at the pub



58. Public dancing in the plaza



59. Young people at the dance hall on Christmas Eve



60. The workers at this restaurant are required to shave their heads



61. An astonished spectator at a nude photography exhibit



62. A man is astonished at the scantily clad women



63. A female photobraher and her self portraits



64. Dance performance in the street



65. A disappointed woman at a lottery of allotments of a new stock offering



66. The lucky winner at an instant lottery game



67. During a lull in the stock market, investors practice taichi on the stockbroker's floor



68. Sales distributors receive news of a ban



69. The local real estate exchange mart



70. A man promotes himself at a human resouces exchange mart



71. Local billboard is covered with telephone numbers for getting fake documents



72. This urban restaurant advertises a rural peasant atmosphere



73. In the 1987, the first Santa Claus and Miss Santa appeared on Chang An Street



74. Vacationers frolick in the artificial waves at a Beijing spa



75. At a scenic tourist site, children use their implements to beg from the tourists



76. Searching for tips to 'get rich quick'



77. A newspaper collector rummages through the refuse collection station

这本摄影集起源于广东美术馆2003-2004举办的《中国人本－纪实在当代》摄影作品展(2004年在上海美术馆也展出过)，收录了250多位摄影家的 600多幅作品，是当代中国最大的一次人本摄影展。这些作品分布的年代集中在1980-2001年这个中国解冻的20年，也有少量1950-1980的作品。这些作品基本上涵盖了中国所有地域的所有阶层， 还原了中国人生存情态的本真，是人类学标本的摄影学。