A statue of modern artist Lin Fengmian by Wu Weishan on show.[Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily]

Another member and esteemed photographer Bruno Barbey, who died on Nov 9, also held a one-man exhibition at the National Art Museum last year titled The True Color of China. On show were a dozen of photos which the Paris-based photographer has taken in China from the early 1970s till today.

Especially, Barbey documented the historical course and vivid life moments of China during his visits first in 1973 and then back in 1980. His photos captured with colored Kodak films, at the time still uncommon, introduced to the world the dramatic transformation of a traditional civilization to a modern version four decades ago.