Book Title: Lessons Learned in One Day
Photographer/s: Chen Chunlin
Place of publication: Shanghai, China
Year of publication: 2008
Publisher: m97 Gallery
Language: Chinese, English
Dimensions of book: 170 x 185 mm
Binding, paper & printing details: Perfect bound, Offset prints
Number of pages:106
Designer: m97 Gallery Shanghai
Summary of project:
“Back in 2003, after having spent an entire day taking portraits in a wide lane in Chengdu, I decided to name this series “Lessons Learned in One Day”. My intention with this work was to analyze modern society through photographs taken in one-day’s work. One day might seem short, but inspired by the Buddhist belief behind William Blake’s poem A Grain Of Sand (“To see a world in a grain of sand, / And heaven in a wild flower), I thought that one day of photographing will hold both certainties and coincidences.”
Chen Chulin
