\n\tThe artist. Acquired by China Avant-Garde, Inc., New York, after 1998; purchased by the Princeton University Art Museum, 2002.
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","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"The photographer Hai Bo learned printmaking before studying as a woodcarver at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing. He started making photographs in 1999, when he produced the series Them and They, in which he restaged group portraits from existing photographs. Them #6 is an enlarged version of a studio photograph taken in 1973, produced during the Cultural Revolution and inscribed, “For the future.” Hai Bo pairs this image with his portrait of the same group of sixteen women twenty-six years later. The artist’s reinterpretation of a past moment evokes the common practice in Chinese painting of studying and copying or duplicating past models and styles in order to produce a new artistic synthesis. Them #6 also illustrates, through fashion, culture, and photo- graphic technology, the magnitude of change experienced in China during the last decades of the twentieth century.\n","remarks":"ASIA2_14_CLA Day 1 Cataloguing"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Handbook Entry","textentryhtml":"Photographer Hai Bo first learned printmaking before studying as a woodcarver at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing. He did not begin making photographs until 1999, when he produced the series Them and They, in which he restaged group portraits. Them #6 (or They Recorded \"For the Future\") combines past and present-day studio portraits of the same group of sixteen women. One portrait enlarges a studio photograph, dated 1973, that was produced during the Cultural Revolution and inscribed \"For the future.\" Paired with this image is Hai Bo’s group portrait of the same women twenty-six years later. In the traditional study of Chinese painting, past models and styles are copied or duplicated in a process that produces a new artistic synthesis. Similarly, in Hai Bo’s paired images, a past moment captured on film is reinterpreted. ","remarks":null}],"datebegin":1999,"sortnumber":"2002 304 a b","published_date":"2026-03-31 02:30:13.857489","objectid":40821,"dimensions":"a: 60.2 x 86.8 cm. (23 11/16 x 34 3/16 in.)\r\nb: 60.2 x 83 cm. (23 11/16 x 32 11/16 in.)\r\nframe (each): 77.2 × 102.5 × 3.8 cm (30 3/8 × 40 3/8 × 1 1/2 in.)","on_view":true}