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China's First Nude Photo Show Calmly Welcomed in Guangzhou

 
    GUANGZHOU  -- Far from being shocked,Chinese audience have calmly received the
 country's first nude photo show, which has been staged
 here in this capital of south China's Guangdong Province
 since January 11.

    Some 1,000 people visit the show daily, and more
 than 200 albums containing the pictures featured at
 the exhibit are sold every day.

    "The public response to the photo show is better
 than our expectation. Nude photography is no longer
 taboo in people's mind," said She Shan, general secretary
 of the Fujian Photographic Art Society, a co-sponsor
 of the photo show.

    He said the sponsors have discreetly chosen Guangzhou
 as the first place for the nude photo exhibition, because
 the city has been well nurtured in China's opening-up
 atmosphere.

    In Guangzhou and Shenzhen, many photo shops have
 opened photo services for people who would like to have
 their own nude pictures.

     Appearing in 1980s, nude photography was a controversial
 art form in China. Many photographers who took nude photos
 could not display their photographs openly.

    On the epigraph of this photo show, organizers said:
 "This is a delayed photo exhibition."

    Sponsors of the exhibition, the China Art Photographic 
 Association (CAPA) and the Fujian Photographic Art Society,
 began to solicit entries in November 1999, when some 5,000
 pieces made by over 600 photographers were submitted to
 the show. 

    Starting in July last year, an appraisal committee
 made up of 12 renowned professional photographers, educators,
 artists, critics and models were involved in selecting
 107 outstanding pieces for the exhibition.

    "It is an unprecedented photo exhibition, which
 signifies a parochial taboo is being wiped out. Chinese
 people are pursuing their aesthetic taste in a much more
 daring manner," said Liu Lei,director of CAPA.

    Han Meilin, a renowned Chinese artist, wrote under
 the championship winning photo, "Charm of the Loess":
 It is brilliant that the photographer could express the
 Loess culture, the restrained but progressive manner of
 Chinese women in such a limited space.

    "The art demands that both photographers and models
 have a lot of guts," said Huang Xusheng, the winner,
 who was overwhelmed with emotion. The 60-year-old
 experienced photographer has been committed to nude
 photography for over a decade.

    The organization of the nude photo show also required
 an equal challenge, since China has not pinned down
 specific laws and regulations for the art form.

    In order to avoid discord, organizers have employed
 law consultants to the show, and signed contracts with
 photographers and models on preservation of portraiture
 rights and the photographic plates.

    The photo show, which will continue until February
 3, has lifted up the voice of the healthy development
 of the nude photographic art. 

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