Hou Bo, Mao Tsetung, Photographien
Hou Bo, Mao Tsetung, Photographien
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(Hou Bo). Mao Tsetung. Photographien. (Zusammengestellt von Redaktion ’Photographie in China“). Peking, Verlag für Volkskunst und Verlag für Fremdsprachige Literatur (1978). Folio (38 x 32 cm.). [4] Bl., 200 Farbtafeln, [4] Bl. Roter Orig.-Leinenband mit goldgepr. Rücken- und Deckeltitel und Klarsicht-Schutzumschlag. Parr/Badger I, 185 (engl. Ausgabe). Parr/Lundgren 248 ff. – Deutsche Ausgabe, geichzeitig erschienen noch Ausgaben in Chinesisch, Japanisch, Englisch, Spanisch und Französisch. – „While Hitler had his own personal photographer in Heinrich Hoffmann, Mao Zedong had Xu Xiaobing and his wife, Hou Bo, who took the photographs in this book. She was Mao’s official portrait photographer from 1950 until 1962, when she aroused the ire of the Chairman’s fearsome wife, Jiang Jing, and was sent to a labour camp on the orders of this future member of the Gang of Four. … Looking at some of the superb, iconic images in this fascinating book, which was published in many languages, it seems incredible that the official reason for Bo’s fall from grace was the allegation that she had never taken a good photograph of the Chairman. The real reason, it appears, was quite the opposite. Madame Jing wanted to monopolize Hou Bo’s photographic talents for her own aggrandizement, and when the photographer refused, she spent three hard years in a labour camp, emerging almost blind, and then spent a further seven years before her rehabilitation working as a cleaner for the New China Press Agency“ (Martin Parr in Parr/Badger). – „The adult life of Mao Zedong (Tsetung) is chronicled here in full-page, full-color portraits. Clearly posed for the traits. Clearly posed for the camera on the whole, the photographs show Mao as charismatic leader, teacher, thinker, general, and father figure. The backgrounds are highly stylized, pointing to some manipulation of the images, The purpose of this album, published two years after Mao’s death is to glorify Mao. The book reveals nothing about him that was not already known, but it reveals quite a lot about publishing and personality cults. Aside from a brief, unsigned preface, simple captions, and an index, the album has no text-the photos were, after all, self-explanatory, oft-published images. … As Mao aged and became more rotund, and as his hair receded, his facial skin retained its youthful color and glow, an attribute due less to nature than to artistic skill. The public’s mourning for Mao made books such as this one enormously popular, and ownership of a copy would have demonstrated a person’s loyalty to all that Mao represented in his quest to build a new China. The Red Sun That Never Sets finally set, but it continues to shine in books such as this“ (R. Lum in Parr/Lundgren). – Sehr schönes Exemplar.
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