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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Clark, Catherine E

Titel

From Cameras to Slideshows: The Photographic Practices of French Maoism

Ist Teil von

• Representations (Berkeley, Calif.), 2024-05, Vol.166 (1), p.27-61

Ort / Verlag

Berkeley: University of California Press Books Division

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This article looks past the showy dramas of French Maoism in order to bring into focus its widespread and at times banal photographic practices in the late 1960s and 70s. Tremendous energy was devoted to taking and circulating photos of China within France. These photographs, whose close connection to the real seems at odds with the goals and means of the Cultural Revolution, were nonetheless essential to its enthusiastic reception in the West.