one of the most famous pictures taken by lü was of mao sitting on a stone bench and looking at lushan mountain in jiangxi (1961). another iconic photograph was taken in 1953 when mao was embraced by one of the chinese volunteers who were returning after the korean war. mao's son was killed by an airstrike in the war. a picture of mao and zhou enlai showed them standing side by side, smiling and handing papers to each other. in a 2001 interview with people's daily, lü said that mao had given him full freedom and never posed for the pictures, and he never complained about the picture-taking.