Hou Bo
Hou Bo (Chinese: 侯波; 17 September 1924 – 26 November 2017) was a Chinese photographer. With her husband Xu Xiaobing, they were among the best known photographers of Mao Zedong.[1] She joined the Communist Party at the age of fourteen and learned photography during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
After 1949, she and Xu Xiaobing lived in the same compound as Mao and took both official photos, some used for posters and publicity, which became the most widely circulated photos of Mao, and some family photos, taken informally behind the scenes.
Among her best known photographs are "The Founding of the PRC" (1949), "Mao Zedong Swimming Across the Yangzi" (1955), "Chairman Mao at Work in an Airplane" (1959), and "Mao Zedong with Students from Latin America" (1959), which won First Prize in the National Photography Exhibition of 1959.
Hou died on 26 November 2017 in Beijing at the age of 93.[2]
Hou Bo Media
Xu Xiaobing, Hou Bo, Mao ZedongFragrant Hills, 1949
Mao Zedong in a rice field*Poster based on a photo by Hou Bo
References
Other websites
- 大家名作: 侯波摄影作品赏 (Hou Bo's Prizewinning Masterpieces) Archived 2016-12-29 at the Wayback Machine Chinese Photographers Association.
- 侯波 中国女摄影家 Baidu Baike.