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towering over a crowd of soldiers". This pose, she continues, was an "unusual side-on view," in contrast to the traditional way of depicting leaders in a "frontal view in order to emphasize their integrity and authority." But Xu explained his choice in a practical way, saying "If I had stood in front, I would have had to stand in the middle of the crowd", so "all I could do was move over to the side and take the shot".
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jujubes and dried buns, and we all sang together". But the couple was separated for much of the time until
January 1949, when the PLA entered Beiping. They were reunited in Mao's summer house in the Fragrant Hills temporary headquarters outside the city, where Xu was photographing Mao's meetings with foreign delegations. Mao took an interest in Hou Bo and asked her to join the group of official photographers.
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After Mao's death and the opening of China, the couple, who had retired nearly a decade earlier, published book collections of their work and arranged their papers. The French film-maker Claude
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words of one China watcher, became "court photographers" who took photos both of Mao in "Stalinesque" poses that became famous propaganda posters and also relaxed pictures of Mao with his family, some on the beach at
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