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From the book “Photographic Memories”

Don Hong-Oai and Custom & Limited Editions

From the book “Photographic Memories”

1985

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From the book “Photographic Memories”

1985

Physical Qualities Inkjet print, Image: 330 × 292 mm. (13 × 11 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Brenda Edelson, Santa Fe
Object Number 2015.50
Don was born in Guangzhou, China, and raised in Saigon, Vietnam. He was apprenticed to a photography studio at age 7 and after coming to the U.S. in 1979, he regularly returned to China and Vietnam to take photographs. Here, a woman follows her own youthful footsteps across terraced fields in Southwest China. Don emulated a long tradition in Chinese painting by adding an inscription: “...the road is long, but her spirits are high as she...makes her way back to her childhood home...”
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2015; Brenda Edelson, Santa Fe, NM
Time Frames: Contemporary East Asian Photography
Don Hong-Oai and Ruth Silverman, "Don Hong-Oai: Photographic Memories: Images from China and Vietnam," San Francisco: Custom & Limited Editions: 1999, ill. p. 95.
Greg Fallis, "Sunday Salon. Don Hong-Oai," "Utata Tribal Photography," [http://222.utata.org/sundaysalon/don-hong-oai/]

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Don Hong-Oai

1928–2003

Chinese, 1929-2004
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Custom & Limited Editions

2000–2000

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