Revolution in Color: Vietnam Pictorial and Socialist Futurity
02:30 pm – 04:30 pm, Sun 02 Mar 2025
Matca Space for Photography
48 Ngọc Hà, Ba Đình, Hà Nội
Language: English with Vietnamese translation
From the organizer:
In the wake of Vietnam’s victory at Điện Biên Phủ, Vietnam Pictorial emerged as a compelling visual voice, shaping North Vietnam’s vision of a socialist future. This presentation explores the ways that the illustrated magazine harnessed the power of vibrant color imagery to project ideals of progress, unity, and revolution during a time of war and upheaval — all the while navigating tensions between ideology and aesthetics, fostering global alliances, and crafting a distinct socialist visual language.
About the speaker
Thy Phu is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Toronto. She is author of two books, Warring Visions: Photography and Vietnam, and Picturing Model Citizens: Civility in Asian American Visual Culture. She is co-editor of the peer-reviewed, open-access journal of Trans Asia Photography.
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