Photography
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CAN MONEY BUY LOVE? Magnum photographer Chien-Chi Chang signs copies of his new book “Double Happiness” (Aperture). Mr. Chien-Chi documents a bustling marriage trade driven by Taiwanese men. The prospective husbands fly to Vietnam to buy wives, choosing among groups of hundreds of women lined up cattle call-style. The photographs document the process from the beginning, when the women look mostly bored as they wait for the men, to end, when the new couples kiss awkwardly and pose with bottles of fake champagne. Tonight, 6-8 p.m., Aperture Gallery, 547 W. 27th St., between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, 212-505-5555, free.
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