NO MAN EVER STEPS IN THE SAME HOLE TWICE ︎ NO MAN EVER STEPS IN THE SAME HOLE TWICE ︎ NO MAN EVER STEPS IN THE SAME HOLE TWICE ︎
404: MACADAM
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“They have personally experienced the process from prosperity to weakness, the education they be taught is pure ideal and romanticism, but all they can see is the supremacy of money and the worship of desire, born in ideal die in desire, is the best portrayal of this generation.”
“404” is a book about my hometown, Chinese factories and working class.
Chinese state-owned factories used to have a code name to distinguish or keep secret. The factory in my hometown is code-named 404, which is a chemical fertilizer factory. Now this factory has been closed because of several reforms, and the original site is now only a piece of ruins. I entered the factory site last year and took a group of photographs, and in the process of shooting, I had the idea of making a book about the factory, because China once had many state-owned factories, which were inextricably linked to the people of this country, but now most of them have closed down or been acquired because of economic reforms, and the workers inside are also facing miserable sufferings, so I made a bunch of seemingly meaningless numbers on the book cover, and these numbers are all represent the once glorious factory, and 404 is just a part of it.
There are two chapters in the book, each one become a pamphlet, I bound them together ( Z Binding ), when finish reading one , it’s the beginning of the other.
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Industrial Cardboard Binding
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Paper Supply｜Takeo Japan Co., Ltd.
Cover｜Vent Nouveau V-250
Pages｜Vent Nouveau V-110
Size｜148mm*210mm
Number of Pages｜80p
Print｜Zhenlin Printery Chengdu
Risograph｜Press Wow! Chengdu
Art Direction & Text & Layout
Retouching & Photography & Binding
Printed and Bond in China
(Excluding HK & MO & TW Regions)
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