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at a time when the young medium of photography was opening up new possibilities for visual representation and the notion of childhood itself was in transition

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China Products Tydeman at a time when theBetween March 1981 and July 2004 the married couple Shimao Shinzo and Ushioda Tokuko travelled regularly through the Chinese speaking world collecting everything small scale: from toys, packaging and combs to play house furniture, balloons and health products. The result is a mind boggling collection of cheap mass produced products, readily disposable but nevertheless clearly cherished.