Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China

<i><blockquote> In the past decade, photography has been responsible for the

largest number of artistic works in any single medium in China. Its acceptance and rise

has an intriguing history. During the years of the Cultural Revolution (1966 to 1976),

photography was largely propagandist and therefore, arguably, a form of fiction. An

underground push towards unsuppressed truth during the second half of the Seventies

led to a strong documentary photography movement. Only after these two layers had

been established could what became known as experimental photography arise; once

contained within Chinese institutions, photography became a tool used by self-

determined artistic communities.

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Hullo .[. Z -

Thanks for posting a *very* interesting article. I appreciate things like this, as do many

others who don't make the time to write. Please keep posting.

Regards,

CF