Ai Weiwei's Portraits and Photographs

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• Wei-Wei AI 艾未未

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Photograph

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This collection brings together a series of portraits and documentary photographs related to Ai Weiwei, spanning different periods of his life. The collection includes photographs taken during his time in New York City in the 1980s, documenting his interactions with other artists and cultural figures, such as artist Wang Keping, his younger brother Ai Dan, composer Tan Dun, and others in a New York apartment. This collection also includes portraits of Ai Weiwei taken by other artists and photographers, such as Allen Ginsberg near Tompkins Square Park in New York in 1988, and Chinese artist He Xiangyu in The Death of Marat (2011). （Yida Du '29)