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* {{cite| title = 光影人生: 高帆、牛畏予摄影回顾展将在中国美术馆举办 Guangying rensheg: Gao Fan, Niu Weiyu, Shèyǐng huígù zhǎn jiàng zài zhōngguó měishù guǎn jǔbàn| url = http://www.sohu.com/a/144932818_661508| year = 2017| journal = ''中国摄影杂志''| volume = 60| last = 陈|first = 勃 (Chen Bo)| ref = harv}}


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File:Niu Weiyu with camera early 1950s.jpg
Niu Weiyu Tiananmen Square Early 1950s

Niu Weiyu 牛畏予 (b. 1927 Tanghe, Henan) is a Chinese photojournalist whose career started in the 1940s with coverage of the Chinese Communist Party's wartime experiences and continued after 1949. She is praised for her photographs of ordinary workers and ethnic groups, and as one of the few women in photography, she specialized in female images. She is a member of the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese Photographers Association. [1] Her husband, Gao Fan (1922-2004) was also a wartime and post-1949 photographer. [2]

Career

In 1945, Niu entered Anti - Japanese Military and Political University (抗日军政大学), and in 1947 became an officer in the Political Department of the Liberated Area. She bcame a photographer attached to the Eighth Route Army, then turned to news photography for North China Pictorial and other journals.[3]

After 1949, she became head of the Xinhua News Agency department of phtography until her retirement in 1982. In 1975, as the Cultural Revolution was coming to an end, she went to Tibet, traveling by jeep from Chengdu.[4]

References

  • Baidu Baike (2017), 牛畏予 {{citation}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • 陈, 勃 (Chen Bo) (2017), "光影人生: 高帆、牛畏予摄影回顾展将在中国美术馆举办 Guangying rensheg: Gao Fan, Niu Weiyu, Shèyǐng huígù zhǎn jiàng zài zhōngguó měishù guǎn jǔbàn", 中国摄影杂志, 60 {{citation}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |journal= (help)

Notes

  1. ^ China Photographers Association Photogapher Niu Weiyu
  2. ^ Lin Qi "A life in pictures," China Daily (June 13, 2017)
  3. ^ China Art Museum (2017).
  4. ^ Baidu Baike (2017).