The possibility of Lang Jingshan's photography art brought us to think is extremely vast

This year marks the 130th anniversary of Mr. Lang Jingshan's birthday. There are many research on Mr. Lang Jingshan and his photography art today, but in fact, it is difficult for us to achieve a perfect understanding and exhaustion. Our understanding of Mr. Lang Jingshan usually stays in "collection photography", but this is far from covering the art exploration and artistic creation of Mr. Lang Jingshan's life. Art, because this is just the most out of his dazzling halo. There is a topic that can help us grasp the shallow understanding of Mr. Lang Jingshan, and then go deep: photography and painting. Mr. Lang Jingshan participated in countless international salon photography competitions and won countless honors and international reputation. The works participating in such competitions are usually beautiful and salon style. This salon style has a very unique source and painting.

"Moon Night"

Photography and painting are called image art/visual arts. They are resorted to visual art forms. The image is still and stays in the two -dimensional space of the plane. So the closest to photography is painting. But there are many differences between the two, the most prominent: photography can capture the images of real life through a mechanical device, instead of transforming things into images by brushes and pigments. Once we leave the camera, we cannot complete the photography. On the other hand, when you use a camera to face the world, if there is nothing in front of the camera, you cannot achieve your imaging; Maping and transformation gradually pile up complete artistic forms. Therefore, the most important difference between photography and painting is the documentary of photography. Photography must be an instantaneous capture of the real world.

There is a very important phenomenon in "Photography and Painting", that is, the works of photographers will consciously imitate painting because the birth of photography is not recognized as an art. Photographers have to find another way: Since painting can be displayed as a art expo at the art expo, as long as the methods of exhausting all kinds of early and late stages are done like painting, shouldn't it admit that it is also art? Therefore, the earliest photography works that entered the Art Fair and the auction were imitated and painted. Many practices of Mr. Lang Jingshan also had such traces of that year, but Lang Jingshan's collection of photography was not just simulating painting, but surpassing painting. This is very important. In his early years of his work "Song Yin Gao Shi", he combined through a variety of materials, pine trees, mountains, and clouds, especially the master sitting at the bottom right of the screen was the famous painter Mr. Zhang Daqian. It will be found that the photos are not inferior to painting under similar themes.

"Songyin Gao Shi"

What can photography develop to this day and what does it bring to us? Photography actually has many important functions, such as the value of the literature that records the truth of instant photography, because it must face objective and true. There is also a conceptual photography in modern times. It is not like the pursuit of beauty in the salon photography nor the real pursuit of instant photography, but it is intended to establish a concept through the picture. You will find that in the works of Mr. Lang Jingshan, these values ​​are well presented.

"Lingliu Sit"

Chinese cultural meteorology in "Collection of Photography"

As one of the most famous photographers in contemporary contemporary, Lang Jingshan has created "collection photography" based on the characteristics of Chinese landscape painting theory and combined with the characteristics of photography art. It can find some sources in the history of photography throughout the world. Lang Jingshan's earliest award -winning work was "Spring Tree Qifeng". He used the "collage" creation method used by famous Swedish photographer Ryland in 1857, but gave it a deeper connotation. The willow trees, fishing boats, distant mountains and beaches near the screen are not originally originally on the picture. He chose these unique elements to make visual presentation. Although it is simply synthesized, it has the weather of Chinese culture, which is the biggest difference between him and Ryland. Rerland's work "Two Roads of Life", collages to collage into a huge space with more than thirty pictures, telling the story between his father and two sons who are moving towards different roads. The capacity that cannot be completed by photography, but the purpose is still a story of loyalty and reality, and telling specific stories. However, the picture made by Lang Jingshan has become an impossible to exist in reality, and more likely to have the context of Chinese cultural context. Rirand wants to tell stories, and Lang Jingshan wants to tell artistic conception and the artistic conception of emptiness. Lang Jingshan said: "... (collection of Jinjin Zhao) The moving flowers and woods, rotating the world, if it is beyond nature, it is not comparable to the patchwork. This is the law of painting in our country. The starting point is to use the concept of Chinese painting, which is the biggest inspiration of his collection of photography to us.

"Spring Tree Qifeng"

"Smoke Boat Boat"

Sinicization of Paper Fighting Visual Effects

Photography historian and theorist Chen Shen once said in the article "Lang Jingshan's Photography World": "In the works of Lang Jingshan, many works have adopted some ancient photographic craftsmanship in order to pursue painting effects. The negatives of this paper are printed into photos. This is very similar to Corola invented by the British photographer Talbot. "Talbot's photosensitive material is paper. The presentation of paper fiber, he believes that this fiber is damaged to images, but it is limited by the material. However, Lang Jingshan was inspired from this point. The negatives that intended to use paper simulated the artistic conception of Chinese landscape painting, because the texture of the paper was very similar to the rough texture of the picture in the traditional Yuan Dynasty landscape painting. Lang Jingshan turned the shortcomings into an innovation that made the photo feel a feeling of Chinese painting, making the painting photography into another possibility. "Lone Pavilion Jue"

The use of minimalism Chinese culture

American photographer Man Ray and Hungarian photographer Mohahley Najib have done a lot of experiments in photography, bringing a new weather to modern photography, and Lang Jingshan also coincides with their creative techniques. There is a way of creative ways called material shadow, not directly shooting photos, but placing some transparent, opaque items on the magnifying pool, and producing the effect of blocking and half -blocking through amplifying the light sensitivity, so as to capture light and shadow Changing changes. This is a very important genre in the exploration of modern photography history and modern photography techniques. It has produced a richer conversion of real light and film through the screen. Mr. Lang Jingshan's work was also affected by this, but he promoted it to the use of minimalist Chinese culture, forming a unique refinement and simplification of the state of Chinese literati. When Western photographers make photos, they only use shadow for the shadow, which is intended to faithfully show the objective and natural scene in the picture, and no longer contains more meaning; The improvement of Chinese culture.

"Film Shadow"

"Simple"

The practice of not to be ignored to witness society

We often ignore the documentary in Lang Jingshan's works. He is one of the earliest photographers in China. He has boarded many valuable works on the "Liangyou" pictorial, and even a handed down work with literature value. His keen capture of instantaneous and concern for society and people's livelihood, as a expression of photography reporters, including the technology of shooting characters, was once covered in the brilliant achievements of collecting photography. And he is not simply recorded, but through observation of the real world, he captures the charm of discovery, and is very interesting for instant grasping. In the picture of Lang Jingshan entitled "Curiosity", the public phone, the people who were waiting to be used, the people who called and the curious back of the people around them were captured very accurately. It has historical literature value. After a few years, if you want to verify the public telephone booths in this region, people's costumes and people's living conditions, and photography is the most classic portrait.

"curious"

"Shanghai"

Full of the documentary mode that is comparable to Sander

German photographer Auguste Sander has formulated a grand shooting plan to take pictures of all professions in all professions. I thought it was a portrait of Lang Jingshan's portrait photography in China. Sander once said: "Nothing is more suitable for me than taking some photos that reflect the essence of our time. I really don't like to play with some tricks, pretentious and personal property -like sugar -water tablets. About the truth of our time and people. "Lang Jingshan's way of thinking also has such accuracy and values. He filmed Chinese literati, such as the portrait of Qi Baishi, and expressed Qi Baishi's wind and bones to the fullest. In addition, due to the international reputation of Mr. Lang Jingshan, he has also shot many foreign celebrities. The portrait corridor formed by Mr. Lang Jingshan's four or five hundred works can be compared with any famous photographer in the world.

"Qi Baishi"

"Yu You Ren"

Compatible and integrating

Mr. Lang Jingshan's photography art is underestimated, and our understanding of it is still not enough to this day. His creative photography works are a diverse interpretation of the concept of real world. He has enabled us to appreciate the space and depth of the unimaginable world in the 1970s. Although the picture itself looks simple, it brings us thinking The possibility is extremely broad. We hope that the discussion and research of Lang Jingshan can bring more diversified cognition, and we also hope to provide more room for thinking. Photography is not simply pressing the shutter. It has more prospects to let us explore and play.

"Songhe Yannian"

"One Bottle Clear Supply"

(Author Lin Lu, vice chairman of the Shanghai Photographers Association, professor of Shanghai Normal University)

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