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《人間》雜誌創刊
Source: Ku Erh-te: The Giant Shadow That Left Human Realm
From: Initium Media
Date: November 28, 2016. Author: Ku Erh-te
In November 1985, the final article in the inaugural issue of Human Realm (Ren Jian) magazine was an interview by Chen Ying-chen with Hong Kong actress Cherie Chung. The piece included several glamorous colour photos provided by advertisers, but the cover of that issue was a black-and-white portrait of a young mountain-tribe boy living on the urban margins — before the term “indigenous peoples” had been formally adopted. This photo, taken by documentary photographer Kuan Hsiao-jung, defined to a considerable extent the life and spirit of this magazine, which ran for nearly four years and forty-seven issues. In an era of stark contrasts between light and darkness, the founding of Human Realm provided Taiwan’s readers with an important window onto the shadowed side of society.
Human Realm Magazine, Issue 2
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- Human Realm Magazine (Taiwan Encyclopedia)
- The Eye of Human Realm — Tsai Ming-te’s Human Realm Live (Voice of Photography, Li Wei-yi)
- Chen Ying-chen Founded Human Realm: One Pen and One Lens Sparked a Social Movement (China Times)
- Gazing at Human Realm — Feature Report (New Vitality Magazine)
- Huang Yi: Facing Chen Ying-chen — Afterword to Thirty Years of Reading (Independent Opinion @ Commonwealth)
- Years of Good Deeds (Voice of Photography, Chang Chao-tang)