Orville Schell Books
Modern China: the story of a revolution
Traces the history of China and its relationship with the West from the thirteenth-century visit of Marco Polo to the present day.
Read MoreAssignment: Shanghai: Photographs on the Eve of Revolution
By Carolyn Wakeman, Jack Birns, Orville Schell, Ken Light
"Shipping out to China in December 1947 with three ten-year-old cameras and a plum assignment from Life magazine, Jack Birns was fulfilling a boyhood dream. The reality was something else: refugees...
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By Lelia Wanick Salgado, Eduardo Galeano, Fred Ritchin, Orville Schell, Sebastiao Salgado
"In 1984 Sebastiao Salgado began what would be a fifteen-month project of photographing the drought-stricken Sahel region of Africa in the countries of Chad, Ethiopia, Mali, and the Sudan, where ap...
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