{"product_id":"thomas-sauvin-great-leaps-forward","title":"Thomas Sauvin: Great Leaps Forward","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"125\" data-end=\"457\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"125\" data-end=\"146\"\u003eGreat Leaps Forward\u003c\/em\u003e presents a remarkable photographic archive discovered by collector and artist Thomas Sauvin in a Beijing flea market in 2016. Inside a tightly knotted plastic bag were more than 300 photographs taken by an anonymous photographer associated with the Xi’an Physical Education University’s photography department.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp data-start=\"459\" data-end=\"964\"\u003eAll the images were made on a single bright day in June 1960 and depict athletes captured mid-motion on a sports field, often suspended in moments that seem to defy gravity. Beyond their striking visual rhythm, the photographs carry a deeper historical resonance. They are among the very few photographic records Sauvin has encountered from the period of the Great Leap Forward (1958–1962), a turbulent campaign of rapid industrialization that led to one of the most devastating famines in modern history.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp data-start=\"966\" data-end=\"1247\"\u003eThrough this posthumous collaboration with an unknown photographer, \u003cem data-start=\"1034\" data-end=\"1055\"\u003eGreat Leaps Forward\u003c\/em\u003e reveals a poetic and unexpected visual record from the margins of a momentous historical period, where athletic movement and political history intersect in a strangely suspended choreography.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp data-start=\"1247\" data-end=\"1269\"\u003ePublished by Silvermine\u003cbr\u003e2019\u003cbr\u003eParis\u003cbr\u003eEdition of 750\u003cbr\u003eHardcover\u003cbr\u003e17 × 33 cm\u003cbr\u003e128 pages\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beijing Silvermine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50555754512441,"sku":"210000004097","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0782\/0872\/9145\/files\/julia-great-leaps-forward-cover-2_4f280963-ae1b-4c58-aacb-0b1e99a5fb7e.webp?v=1790280328","url":"https:\/\/shop.icp.org\/products\/thomas-sauvin-great-leaps-forward","provider":"International Center of Photography","version":"1.0","type":"link"}