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Go to https://www.squarespace.com/nerdwriter for 10% off your first purchase. Produced in collaboration with the National Gallery of Art Production Studio. For more National Gallery of Art videos: https://www.youtube.com/@NationalGalleryofArtUS Thanks Chris Gray Andrea Nelson Muna Tseng Archival footage courtesy of © Cine Light / Lombardmc. SOURCES A lot of what I learned for this video came from a conversation I had with Kwong Chi's sister, Muna Tseng, who is a brilliant artist in her own right. Check out her work here: https://www.munatseng.org/ The audio of Kwong Chi's voice at the end is from an interview with Roland Hagenberg, from 1987, which was provided by Muna Tseng. Bacalzo, Dan. “Portraits of Self and Other: ‘SlutForArt’ and the Photographs of Tseng Kwong Chi.” Theatre Journal, vol. 53, no. 1, 2001, pp. 73–94. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25068884 Day, Iyko. “Tseng Kwong Chi and the Eugenic Landscape.” American Quarterly, vol. 65, no. 1, 2013, pp. 91–118. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41809549 “Tseng Kwong Chi: Monuments and Natural Wonders.” Aperture, no. 110, 1988, pp. 16–16. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/24472107 https://www.nga.gov/stories/visionary-photographer-tseng-kwong-chi-vintage-selfies.html https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/tseng-kwong-chi-an-ambiguous-ambassador-to-life-in-america MUSIC (via Epidemic Sound) Steall Waters - Luba Hilman Lost Empire - David Celeste Entanglement - Luba Hilman Silent Reverie - Tellsonic