Books are unread / unopened / NOS new old stock Rare! Book 1: Editor: de Verbeelding Engels Paperback ISBN: 978907415936405 mei 2001 232 pagina's Fascinated by the cultural changes in contemporary China, Bertien van Manen travelled to China fourteen times between July, 1997, and May, 2000. In her characteristically subtle and sensitive manner, Bertien van Manen produced a personal reportage on China as she saw it: a world of contradictions, a mingling of urban and rural culture, against a communist background. Her images subtly reveal how traditional Chinese life is influenced by Western culture. Because these changes are most visible among youth, Van Manen focused largely on them. Her work offers an unparalleled insight into domestic life in China. Without being voyeuristic, we get to know people in big cities like Shanghai or Beijing, but also in remote little villages: artists, multi-generation families, sometimes outcasts. The intimacy one feels with the people and situations portrayed is amazing. Book 2: Bertien van Manen – Give Me Your Image Publisher: Steidl, 2006 Hardcover, 144 pages Size: 22.5×17.5cm New in seal !(photos taken from own book) From 2002 through 2005, Bertien van Manen traveled all over Europe visiting families and documenting their personal photographs, some selected from albums or hanging on walls, and others stashed in less obvious places around their lives. She collected traces of war and suppression and of happiness and sadness, encompassing a century of history in these recorded–and here re-recorded–meetings of human eyes, minds and hearts. Beyond its very basic appeal, the project seems to reassess van Manen’s earlier work–a career of more direct photojournalism including A Hundred Summers, a Hundred Winters,on the people of the former Soviet Union, and East Wind West Windon the people China–and to memorialize the paper print itself, in light of pervasive new digital cameras and photo-enabled cell phones that make her work all the more rare.