Among the world's foremost conceptual artists, Ai Weiwei offers here an autobiography in pictures, 600 carefully sequenced photos from his personal archive. As China's most outspoken domestic critic, the images here range from playful views of his raised middle finger in front of Tiananmen Square to searing memorials to the 5,000 schoolchildren who died in shoddy government construction in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. Capturing his life at the moment he became internationally known, this unique testimony also chronicles the last days of his father, poet Ai Qing.