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Faded photos illuminate the past

Writing with Light and Portraits from the TFAM Collection include images of pastoral life and vernacular folk culture taken by master photographers of a bygone age

By Susan Kendzulak  /  CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

In the Aboriginal section there are the stereotypical shots of bare-breasted woman carrying produce on their heads and loin-cloth clad men building boats. Ou Yang Wen (歐陽文) captures the naked natives of Green Island in the 1950s and thus preserves a bit of the culture that is no longer with us.

What: Writing with Light and Portraits from the TFAM Collection

Where: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 181, Zhongshan N Rd Sec 3, Taipei (台北市中山北路3段181號)

Telephone: (02) 2595-7656

When: Until June 4 and June 25, respectively

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