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Chang-Yuan Hospital - Lukang Historical Image Museum Permanent Exhibition
Chang-Yuan Hospital is the former residence of Mr. Hsu Tsang-tse. The museum restores spaces such as the Chang-Yuan Hospital medicine cabinet and the Hsu family's private darkroom. Hsu Tsang-tse's father, Dr. Hsu Tu, was a member of the first graduating class of Taichung Middle School (now Taichung First Senior High School) during the Japanese colonial period. After studying medicine, Hsu Tu returned to Lukang to open "Chang-Yuan Hospital." Hsu Tu was exposed to photography during the Japanese colonial period and set up a darkroom at home to develop photos. Influenced by his father from a young age, Hsu Tsang-tse began working with images at the age of 16. Hsu Tsang-tse's images are primarily documentary, truly recording what he saw and heard, expressing it faithfully, and avoiding excessive artistic or dramatic processing. Most of Hsu Tsang-tse's images focus on people's lives, reflecting the background of time and space and people's clothing, making them the most realistic records.
Hsu Tsang-tse was born in 1930. Influenced by his father, he began working with images at 16. In 1958, Hsu Tsang-tse owned his first purchased camera, a Nikon S2. As his photography needs grew, his camera equipment continued to improve, growing from a collection of 100 cameras to over 600, including 70 to 80 Leica cameras. The richness of his collection and the exquisite condition of the items were unrivaled.
Mr. Hsu Tsang-tse set up darkroom equipment inside his home at Chang-Yuan Hospital. In the early years, he developed his own film until machine processing became popular, after which he entrusted it to Lukang Color Printing Shop. Hsu Tsang-tse believed that film was relatively cheap, at only 50 yuan per roll, so he pressed the shutter extensively and only developed his favorite images into photos.
In the 1989 book "Search for Images: The Realistic Style of Taiwanese Photographers" edited by Chang Chao-tang, Hsu Tsang-tse was listed as one of the featured photographers. In 1997, he was invited to participate in the 10th volume of the Artist Relay Exhibition of the Huangxi Art Exhibition by the Changhua Cultural Affairs Bureau, titled "Street Diary." Later, Teacher Huang Chih-nung of Zuoyang Publishing published Hsu Tsang-tse's album "Thirty Years of Lukang Streets and Markets," which is considered his representative work.
Mr. Hsu Tsang-tse passed away in 2006, leaving behind over 200,000 precious images. In 2008, his son, Dr. Hsu Cheng-yuan, donated these images to the collection of the National Museum of Natural Science in Taichung. That same year, a memorial exhibition and donation ceremony for Mr. Hsu Tsang-tse's images were held at the museum.
Hsu Tsang-tse was born in 1930. Influenced by his father, he began working with images at 16. In 1958, Hsu Tsang-tse owned his first purchased camera, a Nikon S2. As his photography needs grew, his camera equipment continued to improve, growing from a collection of 100 cameras to over 600, including 70 to 80 Leica cameras. The richness of his collection and the exquisite condition of the items were unrivaled.
Mr. Hsu Tsang-tse set up darkroom equipment inside his home at Chang-Yuan Hospital. In the early years, he developed his own film until machine processing became popular, after which he entrusted it to Lukang Color Printing Shop. Hsu Tsang-tse believed that film was relatively cheap, at only 50 yuan per roll, so he pressed the shutter extensively and only developed his favorite images into photos.
In the 1989 book "Search for Images: The Realistic Style of Taiwanese Photographers" edited by Chang Chao-tang, Hsu Tsang-tse was listed as one of the featured photographers. In 1997, he was invited to participate in the 10th volume of the Artist Relay Exhibition of the Huangxi Art Exhibition by the Changhua Cultural Affairs Bureau, titled "Street Diary." Later, Teacher Huang Chih-nung of Zuoyang Publishing published Hsu Tsang-tse's album "Thirty Years of Lukang Streets and Markets," which is considered his representative work.
Mr. Hsu Tsang-tse passed away in 2006, leaving behind over 200,000 precious images. In 2008, his son, Dr. Hsu Cheng-yuan, donated these images to the collection of the National Museum of Natural Science in Taichung. That same year, a memorial exhibition and donation ceremony for Mr. Hsu Tsang-tse's images were held at the museum.
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- 2026-01-01 — 鹿港鎮（彰化縣）