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Humanism in China: A Contemporary Record of Photography
By WILLIAM MEYERS
Published: October 24, 2009
Photographs inform our understanding of history. The Korean War began in 1950, when I was 12 years old, and I remember that the Chinese troops who crossed the Yalu River to intervene on the side of the North Koreans were constantly described as a “horde.” A horde is a human but faceless mass, and that was my image of the Communists fighting the United Nations and U.S. forces defending South Korea. Xiao Zhuang’s picture “Old woman asks a man to write a letter for her to her son fighting in Korea, 1953″ made me realize that that horde was made up of sons and husbands and brothers—real men with real families. The concern harrowing the face of this illiterate woman changed my understanding of the Cold War conflict fought more than half a century ago.
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Humanism in China: A Contemporary Record of Photography
By EMMA PEARSE
Published: September 25, 2009
One-hundred photographs by China’s top documentary photographers who are included in the country’s first museum collection of photography. The works, handpicked by a panel of curators who visited 20 provinces, depict the past 60 years in which the culture and politics of the world’s most populous country was slowly but surely transforming.
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The Big Fall Shows – Humanism in China: A Contemporary Record of Photography
This upcoming installation boasts 100 stunning depictions of life in earth’s most populous country. Chosen from more than 100,000 photos compiled by the Guangdong Museum of Art in Guangzhou, these eye-opening images capture a vast spectrum of Chinese culture.
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Behind the Curtains
A new exhibition of documentary photography, Humanism in China: A Contemporary Record of Photography, is on view at China Institute Gallery from September 24 through December 13, revealing a glimpse of China never before seen in the U.S. The photographs, dating from 1951 though 2003, offer intimate portraits of rural and urban daily life in China, beyond the glossy veneer of the economic boom.
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A Flight Over China: The Ordinary & Extraordinary Daily Life through Fifty Years of Photography
By DIA PELLEGRINO
Published: August 27, 2009
Humanism in China: A contemporary Record of Photography is on view at China Institute Gallery in New York City from September 24. The exhibition reveals an intimate glimpse made by Chinese documentarists, and is a unique and rare portrait of a rural and urban daily life in the Red Giant from 1951 through 2003.
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