Author:Dennis K. Chin(1922-2014)

Category：Photograph

Material:Paper

Year：1939

Size:Length:29.2 x Width:24 (cm)

Size description：無

Introduction：The three award-winning Water Mill, First Calling (Stillness), and Wind (Movement) taken in 1939, alone with the one out of judges’ favor, were all developed and enlarged by himself. There is a touching story about how these photos are retrieved. After the cross-strait visits were allowed, he returned to his hometown and tried his best to find his sisters and stepmother whom he had been separated from for a long time. His stepmother took out a kraft paper bag and handed it to him with trembling hands. Chin was so touched that in tears he could articulate a word. The stepmother mentioned that his father risked his life and escaped the conflict of the Cultural Revolution to save these four works for him. His father even left instructions to the stepmother before he passed that the photos should be handed to his son once there’s a chance.

Three yellowish, nostalgic works contain a story of a great era, like going through the helplessness of the times. Chin was 16 or 17 years old. After decades, these three works returned to him when he was old. The yellowish works are full of the affection and love between father and son.

Yang Yong-zhi, “2021 Compilation and Research Project of Metadata in Photography”.

Quotation by Dennis K. Chin, compiled by Angel Yang.
Media sources related to the “old gamin of photography,” Dennis K. Chin, compiled by Angel Yang.
Materials related to Chin’s works dictated and provided by students of Dennis K. Chin, Ching Hsieh and Angel Yang.

Media and Techniques：Gelatin silver print

Accession Number:NCP2016-012-0029