{"id":1936,"date":"2013-06-10T20:42:01","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T20:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2013\/06\/10\/ratak-monodosico-the-weight-of-made-in-china\/"},"modified":"2017-07-09T22:59:17","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T22:59:17","slug":"ratak-monodosico-the-weight-of-made-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2013\/06\/10\/ratak-monodosico-the-weight-of-made-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n

ratak-monodosico<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The Weight of \u201cMade in China\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

All photos are by <\/span>Alain Delorme<\/a>\u00a0and are digitally enhanced to\u00a0exaggerate<\/span>\u00a0the loads carried by the subjects.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Excerpt from Fastcoexist<\/a>:\u00a0<\/p>\n

Many outsiders looking in at China tend to focus on the group over the individual: the factory floors, the crowded classrooms, the high-speed trains, and the gleaming skyscrapers built to efficiently accommodate and maximize value from a rather homogenous group of people. On the other hand, French photographer\u00a0<\/span>Alain Delorme<\/a>, decided to zero in on the individual in his series\u00a0<\/span>Totems<\/a>\u2014specifically, Shanghai\u2019s migrants who bear the physical brunt of the fast-paced economy by hauling wares on their bikes and carts, like improvised trucks.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Delorme alters the photos with Photoshop to exaggerate the loads his subjects carry and heighten that sense of consumption. \u201cTo what extent can we play with reality to get the viewer to ask questions?\u201d He says the works investigate globalization and consumerism. \u201cBut it is above all a way to make people think about the consumer society we live in via the \u2018Made in China\u2019 phenomenon, with all its identical and exchangeable objects produced in big quantities.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ratak-monodosico: The Weight of \u201cMade in China\u201d All photos are by Alain Delorme\u00a0and are digitally enhanced to\u00a0exaggerate\u00a0the loads carried by the subjects.\u00a0 Excerpt from Fastcoexist:\u00a0 Many outsiders looking in at China tend to focus on the group over the individual: the factory floors, the crowded classrooms, the high-speed trains, and the gleaming skyscrapers built to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-video_graphics","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-ve","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":779,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2013\/08\/06\/h-w-so-what-is-it-to-really-love-j-a-m\/","url_meta":{"origin":1936,"position":0},"title":"H. 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