Book of the Week

I Do, I Do, I Do
by Chien-Chi Chang

Chien-Chi Chang’s pictures of Taiwanese weddings offer a skeptical look at the institution and industry of marriage. I Do, I Do, I Do reveals conflicts that the artist, then a 41-year-old unwed man with three younger sisters and no brothers, felt about the concept of marriage and all the traditional family pressures that it involves.

You must feel an affinity for what you are photographing. You must be part of it, and yet remain sufficiently detached to see it objectively. Like watching from the audience a play you already know by heart.

George Rodger