China from Within
从内部看中国

In the 1980s, Americans were accustomed to seeing photographs of contemporary China taken by Western photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson. This exhibition of forty-eight landscape photographs offered audiences a very different view of China through the lens of Chinese photographers. After the end of the Cultural Revolution, many political restrictions affecting photography were revoked, creating a more open and friendly environment for Chinese photographers. Artists returned to their roots to depict the Chinese landscape by employing the conventions of traditional Chinese landscape painting.