Barney Rosset and China
By: exhibit curator, Bob Bergin, Margarita Castroman, Jessica Hallock, Karla Nielsen, Astrid Rosset
Contributors: Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Publisher: Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Subjects: Exhibitions; War photography; World War, 1939-1945; Pictorial works; Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library; Columbia University
Description: The photographs in this exhibit were taken from 1944-1945 by Barney Rosset, then a young American Army photographer. Rosset documented the Chinese Army in their pursuit of Japanese troops following the Battle of Henan-Hunan-Guangxi. The Japanese Army was pulling back from the Ichi-Go operation, the largest Japanese land campaign of the war, and Rosset joined Chinese troops at the deepest point of Japanese penetration (Kweiyang).
Notes: "The images in this exhibition come from the Barney Rosset Papers held by the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University. Kunming Municipal Museum in Kunming City, Yunan, China, mounted an exhibition of these images "Publisher-hero as Combat Photographer in China," which opened on February 20, 2014."