Xinjiang Girl Working in a Textile Factory, Hetian, Xinjiang Province

1996
(Chinese, b. 1969)
Paper: 45.7 x 45.7 cm (18 x 18 in.); Matted: 71.1 x 66 cm (28 x 26 in.)
Courtesy of the artist and Eli Klein Gallery © Liu Zheng
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Location: not on view

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Xinjiang Girl Working in a Textile Factory is very close in composition and subject matter to Lewis Hine's images of girls working in cotton factories in the American South around 1900 (see 1991.294).

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From 1991 to 1997, Zheng Liu worked for a newspaper, creating images that were supposedly documentary but instead presented a fictional, idealized view of life in China. The burgeoning individual prosperity and increasing openness to the West, meanwhile, was contributing to the rise of the photographer-artist in China, whose work fulfilled personal expressive needs rather than governmental ends. In 1994, Zheng took on this new role as he began The Chinese, a seven-year independent project to chronicle Chinese society. Lewis Hine's photographs had a narrower purpose: raising awareness of the evils of child labor.
Xinjiang Girl Working in a Textile Factory, Hetian, Xinjiang Province

Xinjiang Girl Working in a Textile Factory, Hetian, Xinjiang Province

1996

Liu Zheng

(Chinese, b. 1969)
China, late 20th century

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