World Of Decent Dreams: Vietnam Images [Hardcover]

Ellen Kaplowitz (Photographer)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 2003

Vietnam and its people come alive in this visual journey behind the headlines and the preconceptions of the past. From village huts to the neon bustle of Ho Chi Minh City, Ellen Kaplowitz shows us a Vietnam where tradition still thrives in the changing social landscape. We see Vietnam at work in rice fields and on city streets, at prayer, at joyous and emotional family and communal rituals of life and death.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Ellen Kaplowitz's camera offers us Vietnam's everyday face: country and people, rice paddies and mountains, crowds and close-ups—her lens puts us in the middle of it all. Jeffery Hantover's text is a knowledgeable pleasure, at once historical and up-to-date, so that centuries of Vietnam spill out of these pages."—Bernard Kalb

About the Author

Ellen Kaplowitz has trekked the back roads and byways of Asia, Africa, and other continents for over twenty years, photographing their people and ways of life. She has exhibited at the Field Museum, Newark Museum, and University Museum of Pennsylvania among others, and her work has appeared in numerous galleries and publications. In 2002, her exhibit Kingdom of Gold: A Photographic Celebration of Ghana was shown at the Museum of African Art in New York, and she contributed to the American Museum of Natural History's major exhibition Vietnam: Journeys of Body, Mind and Spirit in 2003.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 176 pages
• Publisher: Weatherhill (February 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0834805286
• ISBN-13: 978-0834805286
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,240,996 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)