[AGL] Close comarades in arms

[michele mason]

intriguing


On Jan 31, 2008, at 7:13 AM, Michael Eisenstadt wrote:


> Byron,

>

> Is this a related picture before Lin Biao became a non-person?

>

> Mike

>>

>> Apropos of nothing I have been searching fruitlessly for the lovely 

>> (very

>> funny) pre-Photoshop (airbrushed) set of photos exemplifying the

>> 'non-personifying' of 'Close Comrade in Arms' Lin Biao, in the early

> 1970s.

>>

>> Shot 1 has these three stooges on muleback: Mao the Murderer, Chiang 

>> Ching

>> the Wicked Witch, and Lin 'Shorty' Biao in the middle.

>>

>> Shot 2 is the same black-and-white posed portrait but with this odd 

>> space

>> between the Great Helmsman and his shrewish wife, with an empty mule, 

>> if

> you

>> know what I mean ('Bring 'em on!')

>>

>> It's only black-and-white, but a nice detailed erasure.

>>

>> Anybody have any clues?

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