In 1943, William·, a photojournalist of LIFE magazine in the United States; William Vandvert came to China through the Soviet Union to take pictures of Chinese society during the War of Resistance against Japan, and Xinjiang was his first stop after arriving. Here he used his Lulaifu camera to record the local conditions and customs at that time. These images faithfully recorded the production and life style, natural landscape, human architecture, living customs, traffic geography and other aspects of various ethnic groups in Xinjiang during the Republic of China, leaving us extremely valuable visual archives
This group of photos will be released in succession. The photos in this group are mainly the characters he took at that time. Welcome to preview
维吾尔族舞娘
跳舞的塔吉克族人
喀什维吾尔族少女舞蹈
舞蹈演员表演的音乐舞蹈
骑牛旅行的一家
巴扎上的人们在听中间的这位说书人说书
儿童在喀什河游泳
维吾尔族农民在一起剥玉米
新疆的一个汉族家庭