The representation of the sixties' cultural revolution through photography
Before exploring what made photography such an important tool for the sixties Cultural Revolution, I feel it necessary to define what is meant by the term 'cultural revolution.' The term had in 1965 been used to describe the 'policies initiated in China by Mao Tse - Tsung' who believed 'that you could only have complete revolution if you not only removed the bourgeoisie from power, but destroyed all vestiges of bourgeois ideology.' This is not the kind of revolution that occurred in the West. …
