PhotoForum #86: Tom Hutchins – Seen In China 1956 (2016)

Tom Hutchins - Seen In China 1956. PhotoForum 86, 2016
A large crowd embarking and disembarking from a ferry terminal in Hunan Province, China, May 1956. (RDH C05-13a)
Chairman Mao Tse-tung toasts the Egyptian Commercial Attaché on Egypt’s National Day, Peking, 23 July 1956. (RDH C045-28)
A man and his daughter at the International Children's Day celebration held in the Peking Hotel, Peking. China, 1 June 1956. (RDH C021-30)
Soldiers looking at a "Dress Reform" display of "Western fashions" in the window of a new department store in Wang Fu Chin, Peking. China. 1956. (RDH C014-12)
Saturday night dance in a workers’ club at Changchun, north east China. There was a growing interest in European dance and music, but the relationship between the sexes was still rather formal. (RDH C131-8)
A clerk viewing an art exhibition at Shanghai. China, September 1956. (RDH R68-03)
Tom Hutchins - Seen In China 1956. PhotoForum 86, 2016
A large crowd embarking and disembarking from a ferry terminal in Hunan Province, China, May 1956. (RDH C05-13a)
Chairman Mao Tse-tung toasts the Egyptian Commercial Attaché on Egypt’s National Day, Peking, 23 July 1956. (RDH C045-28)
A man and his daughter at the International Children's Day celebration held in the Peking Hotel, Peking. China, 1 June 1956. (RDH C021-30)
Soldiers looking at a "Dress Reform" display of "Western fashions" in the window of a new department store in Wang Fu Chin, Peking. China. 1956. (RDH C014-12)
Saturday night dance in a workers’ club at Changchun, north east China. There was a growing interest in European dance and music, but the relationship between the sexes was still rather formal. (RDH C131-8)
A clerk viewing an art exhibition at Shanghai. China, September 1956. (RDH R68-03)

PhotoForum #86: Tom Hutchins – Seen In China 1956 (2016)

$25.00

Edited by John B. Turner. Published by Turner PhotoBooks, Auckland/Beijing in collaboration with PhotoForum Inc, Auckland, NZ, 2016.

Designated as PhotoForum #86

Chinese translation by Han Niu
English and Chinese text
ISSN 01110411
A5, 124 pages, 99 photographs, hardcover.

This bi-lingual book was produced to coincide with the debut exhibition of photographs made in China 60 years ago by the pioneering New Zealand photojournalist and photographic educator, Tom Hutchins (1921-2007), presented at the 2016 Pingyao International Photography Festival.

‘On the platform there are many people waiting to cross the other way, waiting for the train back to Hong Kong. . . No one seems to mind having their pictures taken, and the attractive girl who sends off my cable from a raised bureau in the middle of the platform blushes and smiles with charming embarrassment as I focus closely on her, and a few smiling people gather to watch. As she looks up tables and concentrates on getting a few words away to a strange place called New Zealand I keep my camera busy, and behind it I secretly celebrate this first success in doing what I had come to China for—photographing in my own way and on my own terms these people who number a quarter of mankind.’

The above quote is from Tom Hutchins, writing about entering Communist China on 9 May 1956, which was then closed to most of the world. It was the beginning of four months of non-stop activity for him.

View online exhibition of Tom Hutchins – Seen In China 1956

Interview with John B. Turner – 25 Remarkable Images Provide Rare Glimpse of 1956 China, by Matt Schiavenza Asia Society

See more Tom Hutchins’ China photographs on John Turner’s website

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