Humanizing China - Part 2 (Relationships)



1. A pair of lovers lie under the sun on the green grass



2. A family on the Shanghai Bund



3. An unfinished building in Hainan became the construction workers' outdoor bathroom



4. A horsedrawn cart, a truck and an airplane



5. A special VIP visits the Forbidden Palace with a phalanx of bodyguards



6. A soon-to-be completed commercial building and the still quiet old alleyway



7. A judge heads for a remote mountain village to take on a case;

the horse is used to carry the national emblem



8. The street cleaners in front of the National People's Congress building in Tienanmen Square



9. The cadres visit the village to explain the law, and are treated to a work meal of potatoes



10. The mobile law court holds a session on the mountain road



11. A neighborhood patrol of retirees



12. Out-of-towners without resident permits are detained in Hainan;

the lucky escapees are searching for their detained friends and relatives



13. Neighorhood women keep an eye on strange visitors



14. A neighborhood watch group chats away



15. Two young girls read the placard of a beggar



16. Watching soldiers train from a close distance



17. A city girl checks out her foot



18. Modern garbage



19. Elementary school children sent out to direct traffic



20. A tired passenger in the subway



21. A self-assured village cadre



22. Female workers dormitory at a handbag factory



23. Streetside cobbler in the early days of the mobile phone



24. A car had just died on the road but nobody wants to help



25. Villagers looking at wedding photos



26. A peasant village couple in a traditional wedding



27. The 27-year-old resident committee chairwoman tries to mediate a family dispute



28. Increasingly westernized weddings in the city



29. Chatting with an admirer on the other side of the barbed wire fence of the factory



30. Child plays at the courtroom while parents bid for a divorce



31. Students on a Beijing street



32. An elevated female



33. Kissing lovers on Wangjingfu Street, Beijing



34. Border military officer and his family



35. Handicapped couple goes to town



36. Expectant mother of quadruplets



37. Returning to her parents' home



38. Four brothers look at tall Shanghai buildings



39. Four brothers take a bath in summer



40. Unwilling kindergarten child was 'invited' to enter by the teacher



41. Mother accomapnies son to study on a summer's night



42. A peasant is about to transplant his kidney to his diabetic son



43. A parent disciplines the child



44. A vegetable vendor plays with his son



45. A military officer says goodbye to his visiting wife and son



46. The commune wash room in an apartment building



47. Old neighbors



48. An art student lives alone in a rented house



49. Children play in the narrow alleyway



50. A man applies hair oil for his wife



51. The neigborhood bridal party prepares for the wedding



52. A son plays a bamboo flute for his mother



53. A homemade table tennis game



54. Elementary school children doing handstands



55. A Tibetan girl chews bubble gum before the storm arrives



56. A teacher rears 40 cats in a 20 square meter apartment



57. A death row inmate uses the bathroom

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。