Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: KOCH, Paolo
Event Date: ca. 1967
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.002748

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, stamped: Please, do not alter / mark, or airbrush this print. / Prints must be returned / after use. / Black Star, Library; stamped: Credit: [star shape] / from BLACK STAR; handwritten: Paolo Koch; handwritten: 113-67//24; typed label: F 113-67 24 Peking, China. In this printing plant where most / illustrated publications are printed (also the red booklets and / Mao portraits), a girl is retouching negative of a photo showing a / stage-play of revolutionary cadres with Albanian and chinese [sic] flags. / The issue for which she is working was the last picture series to be / published on Albania in the Chinese press –all later ones had text only / The reason is that although Albania followed the example of the Great / Cultural Revolution, elimination of “old traditions” is not a very [illeg. crossed out] / aparent [sic] factor. Women in Albania still wear lipstick, and dresses are / too short for chinese [sic] opinion. Many chinese would be appaled [sic] to see / their true Marxist-Leninist friend’s behavior. Taken in Peking may [sic] / 1967

Tagasauris Keywords: Day or night unknown; Indoors; Nobody
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: ALBANIA / COMMUNIST POSTERS
Retouching: N