CHINESE POLITICAL PHOTOBOOKS.

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Mao Tsetoung choix de photographies ("Mao Tse-Tung: A Selection of Photographs"). First edition, first printing. "The photographs show Mao as charismatic leader, teacher, thinker, general, and father figure. The backgrounds are highly stylized, pointing to some manipulation of the images" (Parr & WassinkLundgren).Provenance: from the library of the Waiwen chuban faxing shiye ju (Foreign Languages Publication and Distribution Bureau), the part of the state publishing apparatus responsible for disseminating propaganda abroad, with its blind stamp and numerical notation on the title page.

• Printing: first

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