Wu Hung

Floating Images: Eloisa Haudenschild & Contemporary Chinese Art by Phoebe Wong

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Arts & Collection Series II in Asia Art Archive, July 2004
Born in Buenos Aires and currently residing in San Diego, California, Eloisa Haudenschild, has one of the largest collections for contemporary Chinese photography and video art. “Zooming into Focus: Contemporary Photography and video from the Haudenschild Collection” exhibitions in US, China and Mexico included a [...]


Chinese Photography: Beyond Stereotypes by Barbara Pollack

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Published at ARTnews.com, February 2004
With the introduction of digital photography and high-tech printing facilities in China in the 1990s, a new generation of artists immediately embraced photo-based media as the perfect means for expressing the changes taking place around them.
The face of the new China is not the medical masks spawned by the SARS [...]


Zooming into Focus, Sliding into History by Britta Erickson

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Published in the Zooming into Focus catalog, 2005
As the opening of Zooming into Focus: Contemporary Chinese Photography and Video from the Haudenschild Collection at its final venue the National Gallery in Beijing draws near, it is time to pause and reflect on the exhibition’s significance. Since its inaugural showing in 2003, at the University Art [...]


Contemporaneity in Experimental Chinese Photography by Wu Hung

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Published in the Zooming into Focus catalog, 2005
Photography became art again in China in the late 1970s and 1980s. Whereas this visual technology was largely reduced to a propaganda tool during the first thirty years of the People’s Republic, it reconnected with individual expression after the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) was over. The April Photographic Society [...]