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Article: PHOTOGRAPHER WHO DOCUMENTED CHINA'S CULTURAL REVOLUTION VISITS INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON OCT. 6-7
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- October 10, 2009
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Sept. 28 -- Indiana University issued the following news release:
Acclaimed Chinese photojournalist Li Zhensheng will come to Indiana University Bloomington Oct. 6-7 for a viewing of his photographs documenting the Cultural Revolution and to present two lectures.
At great personal risk, Li a photojournalist living in the northern Chinese province of Heilongjiang during the Cultural Revolution managed to hide and preserve more than 30,000 negatives during that 10-year period of upheaval.
Making images as a party-approved photographer for the Heilongjiang Daily, his body of work is the only known existing photographic documentation of the Cultural Revolution (1966-76), a ...