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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

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