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Dream Machine presents a vast collection of Chinese portrait photographs taken in front of cardboard cutouts of machinery over the course of the last century. In photo studios across the country, no effort was spared to recreate a modern atmosphere using two-dimensional imitations of the latest trendy machines: from the first motorcycles in the 1940s to airplanes in the 1960s and televisions in the 1980s. Not only does this kitschy album brilliantly symbolize China’s enduring desire for the new, but also an even more transcendental truth: that seeing is believing, and believing is seeing.
Posted by Jiazazhi, 2023
20 cm x 26 cm, 68 pages, in good condition
ISBN -9-083318-10-3
Dream Machine presents a vast collection of Chinese portrait photographs taken in front of cardboard cutouts of machinery over the course of the last century. In photo studios across the country, no effort was spared to recreate a modern atmosphere using two-dimensional imitations of the latest trendy machines: from the first motorcycles in the 1940s to airplanes in the 1960s and televisions in the 1980s. Not only does this kitschy album brilliantly symbolize China’s enduring desire for the new, but also an even more transcendental truth: that seeing is believing, and believing is seeing.
Posted by Jiazazhi, 2023
20 cm x 26 cm, 68 pages, in good condition
ISBN -9-083318-10-3
