Granary Floor in Tawa Village of Aba County, Sichuan Province
1963, printed 2021
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 45.7 × 45.4 cm (18 × 17 7/8 in.) sheet: 60.9 × 50.5 cm (24 × 19 7/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of The Gao Fan and Niu Weiyu Foundation
Accession Number
2022.15.8
Art Historical Context
In 1963, Chinese Niu Weiyu captured *Granary Floor in T Village of Aba County Sichuan Province*, offering a poignant glimpse into rural life in western China during a transformative era. Tawa Village, nestled in the ethnically diverse Aba region—home to Tibetan and Qiang communities—highlights the communal storage of grain on a granary floor, evoking the rhythms of agrarian existence amid China's post-Great Leap Forward recovery. This square-format image, measuring nearly 18 inches across, preserves the textures and patterns of everyday sustenance in a time of social upheaval. Printed in 2021...