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X-WR-CALNAME:ZHANG YAXIN\: Model Opera
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SUMMARY: ZHANG YAXIN\: Model Opera
LOCATION:Stephen Bulger Gallery
URL:http://www.blogto.com/events/69263
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Zhang Yaxin is a Chinese photographer, born in 1933. He graduated from the =
photography department of Changchun Film Academy and joined the Xinhua News=
 Agency as a staff reporter in 1963. This exhibition highlights the still p=
hotographs he made of the revolutionary model operas from 1969 to 1976. The=
 plots of these operas are based on stories of labouring people struggling =
and fighting for happiness. They were made into films for promotion nationw=
ide.  Yaxin=E2=80=99s still photographs of the characters and scenes were p=
rinted on posters, stamps and craftworks. It was a mass commercial campaign=
 even though people did not understand it in such terms. As the dominant ar=
t form in people's lives for approximately ten years, the revolutionary mod=
el operas and their impact on society are now the subject of much analysis =
from a pop culture perspective. 
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