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Place of Birth: Yilan County, Heilongjiang, China
About Lü Houmin
- Lü Houmin (Simplified Chinese ???; 9 September 1928 – 9 March 2015) was a Chinese photographer who gained national and international recognition for taking official photographs of Chinese leaders, most notably Mao Zedong, from 1950 to 1964.
- Lü started out as a teacher, and later switched to photography.
- He was called Mao's private photographer because many of his photographs were different from the official ones, showing Mao in a more relaxed and personal manner.Lü maintained a rather friendly and simple image of Mao Zedong throughout his life and China's Cultural Revolution.
- He received many international photographic awards.Lü, Xu Xiaobing and Hou Bo have been called the best photographers of Mao.
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