Li Zhensheng (photojournalist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Li Zhensheng (photojournalist)

Chinese photographer

Date of Birth: 22-Sep-1940

Place of Birth: Dalian, Liaoning, China

Profession: photographer, historian, photojournalist, journalist

Nationality: China

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Li Zhensheng (Chinese: ???; pinyin: Li Zhènshèng; born 22 September 1940) is a Chinese photojournalist who captured some of the most telling images from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, better known as the Chinese Cultural Revolution.His employment at the Heilongjiang Daily, which followed the party line, and his decision to wear a red arm band indicating an alliance with Chairman Mao Zedong, allowed him access to scenes otherwise only described in written and verbal accounts. His 2003 book "Red-Color News Soldier" exhibits both the revolutionary ideals and many of the atrocities that occurred during the Cultural Revolution.
The Heilongjiang Daily newspaper had a strict policy in accordance with a government dictate that only "positive" images could be published, which consisted mostly of smiling revolutionaries offering praise for Chairman Mao.
The "negative" images, which depicted the atrocities of the time, were hidden beneath a floorboard in his house before he brought them to light at a photo exhibit in 1988.
A private museum, dedicating to Li Zhengsheng's life and photography, was opened in 2017 in Sichuan Province as a part of the Jianchuan Museum Cluster.