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Who is Michael Jang?
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Who is Michael Jang?

May 30, 2024
0h 42m
★ 0.0

Overview

After a long career as a commercial and portrait photographer, mischievous San Francisco artist Michael Jang sat for decades on a hidden treasure of pictures taken in his 20s—both candid celebrity shots and a down-to-earth cross-section of Chinese American family life rarely captured so playfully. Then, during the pandemic, Jang set out to share his work with the world, street guerilla-style.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

ITVS

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