Left, Right KwaNdebele

KwaNdebele

Clothbound hardcover with a tipped-in photograph

Softcover in slipcase

Park did so rigorously until 2012

Any behaviors that was deemed unacceptable

Left, Right KwaNdebeleLeft, Right, as its title suggests, is a book that may be read from left to right or from right to left, giving it a mirrored structure. Among approximately 600,000 anonymous photographs in his collection, artist Cai Dongdong catalogs them according to the period, the costume and makeup of the subjects, and notes written on the backs of the photos. Then he compares them in the left and right design as he pairs up these women portraits of similar age,