Hou Bo
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Job / Known for: Photographer of Mao Zedong
Left traces: Historical photos of Mao
Born
Date: 1924-09-17
Location: CN Xia County, Shanxi Province
Died
Date: 2017-11-26 (aged 93)
Resting place: CN Beijing
Death Cause: Natural causes
Family
Spouse: Xu Xiaobing
Children: Two sons
Parent(s): Poor peasant family
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Hou Bo was a Chinese photographer who, with her husband Xu Xiaobing, was among the best known photographers of Mao Zedong. Born into a poor peasant family, Hou Bo joined the Communist Party at the age of fourteen and learned photography during the Second Sino-Japanese War in order to present a better image of the Party's work to the world. After 1949, she and Xu Xiaobing lived in the same compound as Mao and took both official photos, some used for posters and publicity, which became the most widely circulated photos of Mao, and some family photos, taken informally behind the scenes. Among her best known photographs are "The Founding of the PRC" (1949), "Mao Zedong Swimming Across the Yangzi" (1955), "Chairman Mao at Work in an Airplane" (1959), and "Mao Zedong with Students from Latin America" (1959), which won First Prize in the National Photography Exhibition of 1959. Hou Bo also took photos of other prominent Chinese leaders, such as Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, Liu Shaoqi, and Deng Xiaoping, as well as foreign dignitaries, such as Jawaharlal Nehru, Sukarno, and Kim Il-sung. Hou Bo's career as a photographer was interrupted during the Cultural Revolution, when she and her husband were accused of being counter-revolutionaries and imprisoned for four years. They were later rehabilitated and resumed their work in the 1980s. Hou Bo died in 2017 at the age of 93.
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