Photography in China: 1934-2008 – lens culture

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Photo by WU Jialin, Yibin, Sichuan Province, 1989

The world’s most comprehensive collection and overview of photography from China is currently on display in a mammoth city-wide exhibition in Houston, Texas, as part of FotoFest 2008. This is a tremendously ambitious and successful presentation of the important roles that photography has played in the dramatic flux that has defined and re-defined China over the past 74 years.

Check it out here.