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Photography: The Chairman and I |
From Urbanatomy, Shanghai, China
Art
Saturday, 14 November 2009 10:11
Written by JFK Miller
Some photographers shoot traveling gnomes, Andre Eichman shoots traveling Maos
For six years, Eichman traveled the length and breadth of China on his own personal ‘Long March,’ accompanied by a 12-inch statue of Chairman Mao, photographing and interviewing people about the impact Mao had on their lives. The result is a unique – and often, bizarre – photographic insight into the lives of the Chinese people and their thoughts on the Chairman. We caught up with Eichman about his upcoming “The Chairman and I” exhibition in Shanghai…
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Photo: regards sur Mao Zedong dans la Chine d'aujourd'hui à Hong Kong |
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le 5/10/2009 à 13h27 par Philippe DOVA (Aujourd’hui la Chine)
A l’occasion des 60 ans de la République populaire de Chine, le Foreign Correspondent Club de Hong Kong expose pour la première fois le travail du photographe André Eichman « The Chairman an I »
Le Président et Moi » est une série de portraits réalisés au cours de ces dernières années par le photographe reporter américain André Eichman au cours de ses différents reportages en Chine. Pendant six ans le célèbre photographe a parcouru la Chine de long en large avec une statue de Mao et rencontré des Chinois de tous âges et conditions en leur confiant la statue le temps d'une photo.
L'idée d'associer une statuette de Mao Zedong à des photos de personnages m'est venue pendant l'été 2003. A cette époque je réalisais un reportage avec le journaliste Sam Chambers et nous avions acheté une statue de Mao dans un marché aux puces de Shanghai. J'étais loin de penser que six ans après ce qui devait être un projet amusant donnerait lieu à une exposition itinérante… » explique André Eichman
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"The Chairman and I" Featured on Calligaris's Posterous blog |
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Featured on calligaris’s posterous
28th of September 2009
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The photographer talks to Yvonne Lai about globe-trotting and travelling the mainland with Mao Zedong.
South China Morning Post Magazine 27th Sept 2009
ME AND MY MAO ‘The Chairman and I’ started as a light-hearted project in Shanghai in 2003. I wanted a side project, something that I could take along that was easy and fun. It’s a pretty simple project, there’s not much to it. I wandered around China with a Chairman Mao statue [taking photos of people holding it]. Some of the portraits work better than others; but the idea is like the opening of [Federico Fellini’s] La Dolce Vita, where they fly a giant statue of Jesus across Rome and get the reaction of every class of people – the rich, the poor, the kid on the street, workers.I just wanted to see what people did when Ihanded them a statue of Chairman Mao.Some would laugh or smile, others would say,‘I don’t want to hold it’. Sure, the Communist Party doesn’t look anything like it did back in the day but the influences still echo around.You can’t deny that he’s had an effect on just about everyone who lives in China.
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