Hou Bo

Hou Bo (; 17 September 1924 – 26 November 2017) was a Chinese photographer. With her husband Xu Xiaobing, they were among the best known photographers of Mao Zedong.Hou Bo & Xu Xiaobing Mao's Photographers She joined the Communist Party at the age of fourteen and learned photography during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

After 1949, she and Xu Xiaobing lived in the same compound as Mao and took both official photos, some used for posters and publicity, which became the most widely circulated photos of Mao, and some family photos, taken informally behind the scenes.

Among her best known photographs are "The Founding of the PRC" (1949), "Mao Zedong Swimming Across the Yangzi" (1955), "Chairman Mao at Work in an Airplane" (1959), and "Mao Zedong with Students from Latin America" (1959), which won First Prize in the National Photography Exhibition of 1959.

Hou died on 26 November 2017 in Beijing at the age of 93.摄影家侯波逝世 曾是开国大典唯一登城楼女摄影师师 

References

Other websites
 大家名作: 侯波摄影作品赏 (Hou Bo's Prizewinning Masterpieces)  Chinese Photographers Association.
 侯波 中国女摄影家 Baidu Baike.

Category:1924 births
Category:2017 deaths
Category:Photographers
Category:Chinese communists
Category:20th-century Chinese artists
Category:21st-century Chinese artists