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Category：Photograph

Year：1983

Size:Length:50.5 x Width:60.8 (cm)

Size description：夾裱尺寸：縱H：60.5cm，橫W：75.9cm 影像尺寸：縱H：37cm，橫W：55.7cm

Introduction：Photographing children was one of the themes for local docu - mentary in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1978, “Lion Art Monthly” published a feature article on children’s photography, introduc - ing the works of photographic artists, including Wang Xin, Yao Meng-jia, Liang Zheng-ju and Shi Jian-yi, which thematized children of various towns and villages. In CHANG ChaoTang’s still-image making of different periods, children are also a subject he often focuses on. In his local documentaries “Fragrant Formosa” and “A Journey of Image”, one can also see the dynamic images he took at different places on the island for the children he encountered along the journey. The images of these children, some of which emphasize warmth, honesty, and cheerfulness, while others are closer to social documentary and less emotional, constitute a different aspect of the “local” humanities during this period. Shot in Penghu, 1983, this work features a little girl with a sad face. Her expression even deliv - ering some anger while she squints ahead, and the setting of the open seaside around the fshing village where she lives form a contrast and confict between the internal and external states.

——Tang Hui-yu, “2021 Compilation and Research Project of Metadata in Photography”.

Media and Techniques：Gelatin silver print

Accession Number:NCP2016-033-0004