The Best Photographer You’ve Never Heard Of

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Produced in collaboration with the National Gallery of Art Production Studio. For more National Gallery of Art videos: https://www.youtube.com/@NationalGalleryofArtUS

Thanks
Chris Gray
Andrea Nelson
Muna Tseng

Archival footage courtesy of © Cine Light / Lombardmc.

SOURCES

A lot of what I learned for this video came from a conversation I had with Kwong Chi’s sister, Muna Tseng, who is a brilliant artist in her own right. Check out her work here:
https://www.munatseng.org/

Bacalzo, Dan. “Portraits of Self and Other: ‘SlutForArt’ and the Photographs of Tseng Kwong Chi.” Theatre Journal, vol. 53, no. 1, 2001, pp. 73–94. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25068884

Day, Iyko. “Tseng Kwong Chi and the Eugenic Landscape.” American Quarterly, vol. 65, no. 1, 2013, pp. 91–118. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41809549

“Tseng Kwong Chi: Monuments and Natural Wonders.” Aperture, no. 110, 1988, pp. 16–16. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/24472107

https://www.nga.gov/stories/visionary-photographer-tseng-kwong-chi-vintage-selfies.html

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/tseng-kwong-chi-an-ambiguous-ambassador-to-life-in-america

MUSIC (via Epidemic Sound)

Steall Waters – Luba Hilman
Lost Empire – David Celeste
Entanglement – Luba Hilman
Silent Reverie – Tellsonic