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Chine

Hélène Hoppenot
Chine

Photographs: Hélène Hoppenot

Text: Paul Claudel

Publisher: Skira

80 pages

Year: 1946

Price: 80 €

Comments: Softcover with dustjacket. 350 x 265 mm. First edition, 1946. Rotogravure printing. Black & White photographs. Text in french. Tops of spine slightly frayed. Inside of the front cover crumpled. Otherwise binding is fine and well preserved. With beautiful gravure prints. Included in "The Chinese Photobook" p 69

Hélène Hoppenot made a trip to China where she photographed the everyday life and habits of chinese people in the country and in the city. This book is her testimony of this travel. It is accompanied with a text from writer Paul Claudel who was deeply interested in chinese culture and traveled to China as well.