H. S. Wong

H. S. "Newsreel" Wong
"Bloody Saturday", Wong's most famous photograph

H. S. "Newsreel" Wong (1900 – March 9, 1981) was a Chinese newsreel photojournalist. He is most notable for Bloody Saturday,[1] a photograph of a crying baby in Shanghai that he took during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Wong was also known as Wang Haisheng (Chinese: 王海升) or Wang Xiaoting (Chinese: 王小亭).[2] He owned a camera shop in Shanghai.[1] For capturing moving images he used an Eyemo newsreel camera, and for still photography he used a Leica.

  1. ^ a b "Cinema: Shanghai, Shambl". Time. Time, Inc. September 13, 1937. Archived from the original on September 2, 2010.
  2. ^ "王小亭 1900~1983". 《他們是歷史的目擊者》─民國40年代台灣攝影記者作品展 (in Chinese). imagecoffee.net. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 9 July 2011.