Thomas Sauvin - Silvermine - 2013
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Silvermine by Thomas Sauvin is a 1st Edition hardback five‑album set, published by The Archive of Modern Conflict, with 40 pages in total and unopened copies, each album containing 20 prints and limited to 200 copies.
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Unopened copies of all 5 albums.
Silvermine is a set of five photo albums each containing 20 prints. The negatives were salvaged from a recycling plant on the edge of Beijing, where they had been sent to be filtered for their silver nitrate content. Between 2009 and 2013, Beijing-based collector Thomas Sauvin amassed, archived and edited more than half a million negatives destined for destruction.
The Silvermine albums offer a unique photographic portrait of the Chinese capital and the lives of its inhabitants covering a period of 20 years – from 1985, when silver film came into widespread use in China, to 2005 when digital photography came to the fore. In these souvenir snapshots taken by anonymous and ordinary Chinese people, we are witnessing the birth of post-socialist China.
Each album focuses on a different theme:
Blue album: TVs and Fridges
Green album: One and Two
Orange album: Marilyn and Ronald
Pink album: Parties and Transvestites
Yellow album: Leisure and Work
• Chosen by Martin Parr as a Best Photobook of the Year for the British Journal of Photography
Limited edition of 200 copies.
Unopened copies of all 5 albums.
Silvermine is a set of five photo albums each containing 20 prints. The negatives were salvaged from a recycling plant on the edge of Beijing, where they had been sent to be filtered for their silver nitrate content. Between 2009 and 2013, Beijing-based collector Thomas Sauvin amassed, archived and edited more than half a million negatives destined for destruction.
The Silvermine albums offer a unique photographic portrait of the Chinese capital and the lives of its inhabitants covering a period of 20 years – from 1985, when silver film came into widespread use in China, to 2005 when digital photography came to the fore. In these souvenir snapshots taken by anonymous and ordinary Chinese people, we are witnessing the birth of post-socialist China.
Each album focuses on a different theme:
Blue album: TVs and Fridges
Green album: One and Two
Orange album: Marilyn and Ronald
Pink album: Parties and Transvestites
Yellow album: Leisure and Work
• Chosen by Martin Parr as a Best Photobook of the Year for the British Journal of Photography
Limited edition of 200 copies.
Details
Number of Books
5
Subject
Photography
Book Title
Silvermine
Author/ Illustrator
Thomas Sauvin
Condition
As new
Publication year oldest item
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Language
None
Original language
Yes
Publisher
The Archive of Modern Conflict
Binding/ Material
Hardback
Number of pages
40
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