Hou Bo
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title:
Hou Bo
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Hou Bo was a Chinese photographer who, with her husband Xu Xiaobing, was among the best known photographers of Mao Zedong. Born into a poor peasant family, Hou Bo joined the Communist Party at the age of fourteen and learned photography during the Second Sino-Japanese War in order to present a better image of the Party's work to the world. After 1949, she and Xu Xiaobing lived in the same compound as Mao and took both official photos, some used for posters and publicity, which became the most wi
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Chinese photographer (1924–2017)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hou_Bo
date created:
2007-10-30T00:11:09Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T00:31:38Z
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