Rennes, France: L'oeil électrique éditions, 2005. 153pp, printed leporello on a single folding sheet with color plates to versos and a series of texts to rectos. 4to. Photo-illustrated boards with red silk tie at fore-edge. Wrinkling to fore-edge of rear leaf, else fine.
Color photographs taken at the time of the Cultural Revolution of 1966 by a 19-year-old secretary at the French Embassy in Beijing and documenting with an unbiased eye a pivotal moment in 20th century Chinese history. Published here for the first time, with texts by Françoise Denoyelle, Solange Brand, Gao Hui Jun, He Jia Dong, Guo Wan Xin, Per-Olow Leijon, Zhou Xiao Hua, Ye Xin, Wu Di & Yang Yang, and Zhang Fang & Wang Qinsong. All text in French.
