Today I read an article on Reader's Digest(Feb.2004, Asia Edition), titled 'The Secret Photographs'.
It's stories of a man called Li Zhensheng and his "secret" photographs taken during the period of The Cultural Revolution,when Li served as a photographer of a news paper. the 3 pictures on the book were really shocking me.Those pictures were not allowed to photoed at that time.So I really admired his courage!what kind of a person he should be?? hope can meet him and talk with him sometime.He use the advantage of his job so as to capture the history that we should never ignore.

Here are some descriptions from the article for the pictures:

"He photographed one high official compelled to bow on an unstable chair before a huge crowd, a damning placard hung about his neck and a towering dunce cap on his head. Black ink was splashed and smeared on the man's face until it ran down his body. Li writes,'I was using black-and-white film, so afterwards I could not distinguish between blood, tears and ink.'"---this is what I see too, at the first sight of the pictures, I thought it was blood all over the man's head....

"Red Guards shave the head of a provincial governor denounced as a "carreeriest" for having a hairstyle similar to Mao's; accused of being enemies of the regime, seven men and one woman face death by firing squad"....

Now china is open, and we know what we should know.As written in the article"Many of his photographs, once treasonous, have now been published in China, where the government acknowledges the terror of the Cultural Revolution somewhat more openly.A series of Li's pictures even won a national competion in the early 1990s."

The book he published:Li Zhensheng's Re-colour Soldier:A Chinese Photographer's Odyssey Through the Cultural Revolution.