Friday, November 5, 2010

Picturing Today (Photo World) – Vo. 12, No. 1 – February 1951

Photo World is published by Norman Kark, Grand Buildings, Trafalgar Square, London.

EASTERN EXPOSURE

Francis Wu

As a Chinese is unmistakable in a crowd of Europeans, so a Chinese photograph stands out from a group of others: both the man and the picture have clear-cut national characteristics.

Take, for example, the work of FRANCIS WU, which we reproduce on the following pages. Wu. One of China’s leading photographers, believe that – in photography, at least – East and West should never meet: that a Chinese should take pictures that faithfully mirror China, rather than allow himself to be influenced by Western technique. As he puts it: “the face of a Chinese can never be changed to resemble a Westerner; so why should a face of China itself be changed to resemble the West?”


Luk Yau Hall

Appreciation

 
Canton Cinderella

Time's Handiwork


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