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Impersonating Mao - Iconography and Illusion - Photographs by Nathalie Daoust

When Daoust first met her subject in 2008, posing as Mao in Tiananmen Square as an act of personal homage, she was intrigued by his construction of an alternate identity from the iconography of the country's troubled past. In 2010 and 2012 she returned to Bejing and photographed the impersonator extensively, both in a domestic setting and at sites of historic relationship to Mao's legacy, echoed in the internal negotiations of the impersonator as he transformed into Mao…

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