[AGL] Close comarades in arms

Michael Eisenstadt mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com
Thu Jan 31 08:13:48 EST 2008


Byron,

Is this a related picture before Lin Biao became a non-person?

Mike

>

> Apropos of nothing I have been searching fruitlessly for the lovely (very

> funny) pre-Photoshop (airbrushed) set of photos exemplifying the

> 'non-personifying' of 'Close Comrade in Arms' Lin Biao, in the early

1970s.

>

> Shot 1 has these three stooges on muleback: Mao the Murderer, Chiang Ching

> the Wicked Witch, and Lin 'Shorty' Biao in the middle.

>

> Shot 2 is the same black-and-white posed portrait but with this odd space

> between the Great Helmsman and his shrewish wife, with an empty mule, if

you

> know what I mean ('Bring 'em on!')

>

> It's only black-and-white, but a nice detailed erasure.

>

> Anybody have any clues?

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