Mending Memory by Hand and Brush: Socialist China's Colored Photographs
Shaowen Zhang
Abstract:A remarkable quality of Chinese vernacular photographs during the socialist period is their efflorescence of color. From studio colorists well-versed in the art of potassium cyanide to private brushstrokes in thick marker, the prevalence of photo-coloring (zhuose) evidenced a marked degree of dissatisfaction with an unmanipulated print. Bracketed by Chinese photo studios’ national institutionalization in 1956 and the promulgation of commercial color rolls in the 1980s, this discussion builds from extant schola… Show more
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