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The Absurd and the Surreal: Photographic Works of Deng Nan-guang and Chang Chao-tang as Artistic Self-Constructs of the Taiwanese Subaltern Counterpublic

The Absurd and the Surreal: Photographic Works of Deng Nan-guang and Chang Chao-tang as Artistic... Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 2021, vol. 21, no. 1, 75–93 https://doi.org/10.1080/14434318.2021.1934776 The Absurd and the Surreal: Photographic Works of Deng Nan-guang and Chang Chao-tang as Artistic Self-Constructs of the Taiwanese Subaltern Counterpublic Kevin Alexander Su* Introduction Deng Nan-guang 鄧南光 (1907–1971) and Chang Chao-tang 張照堂 (b. 1943) are two photographers revered for their immense contributions to the development of photographic practice in Taiwan. Their names and works are regularly cited as cornerstones of modern Taiwanese artistic expression. Deng, the more senior of the two, enjoyed a most productive phase in the years surrounding the end of the Japanese colonial period in Taiwan (1895–1945). His sojourns across the island from around 1935 to 1960 culminated in thousands of photographs reminiscent of Paul Wolff’s 35-mm candids of life in the ailing days of the Weimar Republic. Chang, whose representative period can be roughly bookended by his earliest works around 1960 and the Nationalist 中國國民黨 (also known as the Kuomintang or KMT) government’s lifting of martial law in 1987, likewise drew from humanist traditions of European street photography with a passing acknow- ledgement of Brassaï and Henri Cartier-Bresson and a heady mix of the earlier, formalist tastes of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art Taylor & Francis

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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 2021, vol. 21, no. 1, 75–93 https://doi.org/10.1080/14434318.2021.1934776 The Absurd and the Surreal: Photographic Works of Deng Nan-guang and Chang Chao-tang as Artistic Self-Constructs of the Taiwanese Subaltern Counterpublic Kevin Alexander Su* Introduction Deng Nan-guang 鄧南光 (1907–1971) and Chang Chao-tang 張照堂 (b. 1943) are two photographers revered for their immense contributions to the...
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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 2021, vol. 21, no. 1, 75–93 https://doi.org/10.1080/14434318.2021.1934776 The Absurd and the Surreal: Photographic Works of Deng Nan-guang and Chang Chao-tang as Artistic Self-Constructs of the Taiwanese Subaltern Counterpublic Kevin Alexander Su* Introduction Deng Nan-guang 鄧南光 (1907–1971) and Chang Chao-tang 張照堂 (b. 1943) are two photographers revered for their immense contributions to the development of photographic practice in Taiwan. Their names and works are regularly cited as cornerstones of modern Taiwanese artistic expression. Deng, the more senior of the two, enjoyed a most productive phase in the years surrounding the end of the Japanese colonial period in Taiwan (1895–1945). His sojourns across the island from around 1935 to 1960 culminated in thousands of photographs reminiscent of Paul Wolff’s 35-mm candids of life in the ailing days of the Weimar Republic. Chang, whose representative period can be roughly bookended by his earliest works around 1960 and the Nationalist 中國國民黨 (also known as the Kuomintang or KMT) government’s lifting of martial law in 1987, likewise drew from humanist traditions of European street photography with a passing acknow- ledgement of Brassaï and Henri Cartier-Bresson and a heady mix of the earlier, formalist tastes of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

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Published: Jan 2, 2021

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