Old Photos (8) (Treasure Edition)

Author: Feng Keli, Executive Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: The birth of photography has provided people with a vivid and stable reference for understanding history. Compared to written records, photographs are often more intuitive and certain. With the click of a camera shutter, a scene of history is frozen just like this. "Old Photos" attempts to make changes in this regard, placing photographs at the center of observation and letting the photographs speak for themselves. Sometimes, the words and meanings contained in a photograph go far beyond what a few simple historical conclusions can encompass. Only by facing and listening to the words of photographs can history become vivid and lively. "Old Photos" specializes in publishing interesting old photographs and related articles, observing the survival and development of humans over the past hundred and more years. The photographs have a certain level of clarity, with one or several introducing an event, a person, a scene, or a fashion. The articles are written around the photographs, with no restrictions on style—biographies, essays, sketches, research, and more.
In "Old Photos," much of the emotion poured into the book comes from the authors' memories of their loved ones and friends. As editors, we invest the same feelings. From each old photograph, we experience what truth, goodness, and beauty truly are.