关于肖全——中国最负盛名的当代摄影师之一——的第一本国际化和英文版书籍。

肖全被称为“中国最好的人像摄影师”。肖全在摄影圈内外的知名度，靠的是《我们这一代》的大型摄影集，这本出版于1996年的画册几乎囊括了1980、1990年代文学艺术界风云一时的各色知名人物，其中有张艺谋、陈凯歌、姜文、何训田、谭盾、北岛、王安忆、史铁生、陈村、崔健等人。为了拍摄这本画册，肖全走南闯北，用了将近10年时间才告完成。肖全也因此有了“中国最好的人像摄影师”的美誉。本书对这本摄影集进行了回顾，以将其介绍给更多的读者。

这是一部关于中国20世纪80年代末至20世纪90年代的有趣的个人记录，表现了中国经济改革的前十年的社会巨变。通过精心挑选他在中国各地为普通百姓和一群新兴艺术家拍摄的重要人像照片，本书旨在全面描绘肖权这一代人，为中国文化的演变和当代社会提供新的视角。

The first international volume--and the very first English release--on Xiao Quan, one of the most acclaimed contemporary photographers in China.

Xiao Quan shot to fame with his large-scale photo album Our Generation. The album, published in 1996 in China, features almost all of the famous figures in literature and fine art during the 1980s and 1990s, including Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Jiang Wen, He Xuntian, Tan Dun, Bei Dao, Wang Anyi, Shi Tiesheng, Chen Cun, and Cui Jian, among others. In order to make this picture album, Xiao Quan traveled around China, and it took him nearly ten years to complete it. This book returns to that project to present it to a wider audience.

This is a personal and fascinating documentation of China's late 1980s through the 1990s, capturing the drastic social change of the country's first decade of economic reform. Through an attentive selection of his most significant portraits of ordinary people around China and a group of emerging artists, this book aims at a comprehensive depiction of Xiao Quan's generation, giving a new perspective on Chinese cultural evolution and contemporary society.