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Middle School

1999

Hai Bo

(Chinese, b. 1962)
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Culture
China, 20th century
Medium
gelatin silver print and chromogenic print (diptych)
Measurements
Overall: 81.2 x 58.4 cm (31 15/16 x 23 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Richard Born 2019.306
Edition
Edition of 20
Copyright
Copyright
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print
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Did You Know?

What we call the Mao suit was first advocated in the 1910s by Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, who wanted to create a national dress for China.

Description

Hai Bo acknowledges the changes wrought by time and politics when he has his family and friends pose in the same arrangement as group portraits taken of them 3 decades earlier during the communist era, which stressed a collective identity. Juxtaposed as diptychs with the historic images, the 1990s portraits reveal not just the aging of the sitters, but also their relative prosperity and freedom to express their individuality.
Two horizontally oriented photos juxtaposed one atop the other depicting the same six people three decades apart. In both photos they have short hair and medium-light to medium skin tones and sit three in a row in front, three standing in a row behind. The upper photo is black-and-white, each person wearing similar, medium-dark colored collared shirts and the bottom left two pageboy caps. In the color photo below, they each wear different clothes, some with stripes, some collar-less, and one in a blue blazer.

Middle School

1999

Hai Bo

(Chinese, b. 1962)
China, 20th century

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