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: Katya Knyazeva (avezink) wrote,
2020-11-21 12:25:00

Katya Knyazeva
avezink
2020-11-21 12:25:00

Photographs of China in Rijksmuseum (1970s–1990s)

Here are some views of Shanghai taken by Vincent Samuel Mentzel in 1973–1995, in the collection of Rijksmuseum:

Pedestrian passing a poster for the film Man with a Million (1954) on the wall of the former Cathay Theatre, in 1978:

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1973. Pedestrians passing a poster for the Soviet film Lenin in 1918 (1939):

1995: Statue of the mayor Chen Yi and the Pearl Tower:

1995. Traffic on South Zhongshan Road (?) and the Pearl Tower:

1995. Construction of a highway overpass:

Mentzel's photographs on Rijksmuseum website.

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Tags: 1970s, 1973, 1978, 1990s, 1993, archive, netherlands, photography, shanghai

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Photographs of China in Rijksmuseum (1970s–1990s)

Posts from This Journal “1970s” Tag

Dianchi Road, fifty years apart (1971 vs 2020)

R.I.P. Bruno Barbey (1941–2020)

Dean Conger's photographs of Shanghai in 1979–1997

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