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Empty Bottles

Title: Empty Bottles

Photographer/s: WassinkLundgren

Contributor/s: Floris-Jan van Luyn, Hans Moleman

Date of publication: March 2007

Place of publication: Amsterdam

Dimensions: 9.5 x 12.75 in

Edition size: 2000 (2nd edition)

Type of binding: no cover, stitched binding

Number of pages: 64

Type of paper: chromolux-700 and Lynx

Number of pictures: 24

Type of printing: Offset

Printer: NPN Printers, Breda

Publisher: Veenman

Designer: Kummer & Herrman

Editor: Thijs groot Wassink and Ruben Lundgren

Language: English / Chinese

ISBN: 9789086900633

Category: Artist Book

Price: €15.00

Summary: The photographs in Empty Bottles chart the daily rituals of 24 refuse collectors as they go about their business.

Each picture captures the extraordinary combination of roles played out by the men and women – part scavenger, part collector and part cleaner.

Set against the backdrops of Beijing and Shanghai there’s a significant lack of deprivation to the characters and a profound sense of purpose to their business. As a collection the book offers an insight into China’s rudimentary social services, which otherwise don’t exist or go unchronicled. (Wallpaper Magazine)

Date and place of birth of photographer/s: 11-09-81, Deventer, NL / 09-06-83, Hilversum, NL

Website: www.wassinklundgren.com

Book link: www.wassinklundgren.com/bookshop

Donated by: WassinkLundgren

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Published on March 9, 2011 3:04 pm.
Filed under: Books Tags: 2007, 2nd edition, Empty Bottles, offset, Ruben Lundgren, Thijs groot Wassink, Veenman, WassinkLundgren

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