Hong Kong Tiger Standard – Monday, July 14, 1952

Francis Wu

Leaving Colony
Francis Wu To Give Lectures During US Tour

Mr. Francis Wu, prominent local photographer, will leave for the United States on Wednesday on a lecture tour. He was invited by the Photographic Society of America and the Photographers Association of America to attend the Photographic conventions in New York and Chicago.

Arranged by the National Lecture Program of the Photographic Society of America, Mr. Wu will make a lecture tour to various parts of the States including Detroit, Ft. Wayne, Columbus, Pittsburgh, Binghamton, Baltimore, Washington, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and New York. Arrangements have also been made for him to stop at Canada and Cuba.

Mr. Wu is well known locally as well as internationally. His works has been exhibited almost in every country and published in almost every artistic magazine. Some of his photographs are being kept as permanent museum collections.

He strongly advocates that the Chinese should take Chinese pictures instead of imitating photographic art done with Western technique. He scored a great success with the composite Chinese pictures and his Classical Chinese Beauties.

In addition to his impending lecture tours. Mr. Wu is bringing along two sets of “One-Man Shows” consisting of photographs that will be new to the American public. It is on these pictures that his lectures will be mostly based. His trip will strengthen the link between the East and West and introduce Chinese traditional art to the Western world.

Mr. Wu will leave by PAL plane. He will stop over at Honolulu for one week to visit his old hometown, which he left 20 years ago. He will then proceed to New York on August 10 for his PSA Convention before going to Chicago on August 23rd.for the Photographers Association of America. Convention.