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Vietnam Images
A World of Decent Dreams
photographs by Ellen Kaplowitz, text by Jeffrey Hantover,
foreword by Bernard Kalb
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Vietnam and its people come alive in this
visual journey beyond headlines and preconceptions. From village huts to
the neon bustle of Ho Chi Minh City, engaging and riveting images present
a Vietnam where tradition still thrives in a changing social landscape,
where the bonds of community and family, to ancestors and to the land,
remain defining constants. We see Vietnam at work, in rice fields and on
city streets, at play and in prayer, and at family and communal rituals of
life and death.
Vietnamese poems, prose, and proverbs dating back eight centuries
evocatively underscore the continuities amidst change, while Jeffrey
Hantover’s lucid text offers social and cultural context to the lives so
warmly portrayed. Vietnam Images does not pull back from the toil
and struggle of daily Vietnamese life, yet surprises with its broad
embrace of a people sustained by tradition and alive to the promises of
the future.
Published by Floating
World Editions
May 2008, 160 pp., 140 colour photographs
ISBN 978 1 891640 49 0, hardback, £25.00
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