TY - JOUR AU - Kuo, Li-Hsin JF - Javnost-The Public TI - Documentary Photography: Ren Jian and Guan Xiaorong in late 1980s Taiwan VL - 14 IS - 3 PY - 2007/// SN - 1854-8377 PB - EURICOM UR - http://javnost-thepublic.org/article/2007/3/3/ N2 - This essay provides a contextualised account of social documentary photography in Taiwan during the second half of the 1980s and a critical review of Ren Jian magazine within a case study of Guan Xiao-rong’s Dignity and Humiliation. The latter emerges as an exemplary documentary work on the socio-political issues of an ethnic group of indigenous Taiwanese. The essay suggests that Guan’s mixed position of documentary photographer and campaign activist made his photographs a distinctive and rare humanistic contribution with a politicised dimension. U1 - Print ISSN: 1318-3222 ER -