Who is this man?

This is one of the characters in photographer Xiao Quan's Woman Time. She is not a poet. Her name is Yi Zhinan.

Yi Zhinan, a singer in the 1980s, is a good friend of Xiao Quan.

When Xiaoquan was taking pictures of Yi Zhinan, Yi Zhinan was sitting in the piano room, leaning against the piano and holding an ashtray. After putting on makeup, he smoked slowly. On the wall is a copy of Chen Yifei's oil painting. She is thinking about her life: she wants to make money by making TV dramas and support her husband who is studying at Beijing Dance Academy ... Gradually, her eyes are full of tears.

Xiaoquan didn't say a word to her, just picked up the camera and took a few rolls. The subject was completely relaxed and unprepared, and the moving beauty of that moment was left on the film by Xiao Quan.

"This photo makes many girls crazy. They said it would be nice to have such a photo all my life. After reading this photo, you will feel that she is different from anyone around you 10 km away. " Xiao Quan said.

Xiao Quan and Women's Time;

Born in 1959, with a ancestral home in Sichuan, he is known as "the best portrait photographer in China".

1996 published a large-scale photo collection "Our Generation" with the theme of literary and art figures in the 1980s and 1990s.

Xiao Quan's photographic experience began in the military camp. He repeatedly stressed the importance of photographers learning to observe things. "When I was a beginner in photography, I rode past Baojiaxiang Maternity Hospital one day. It snowed that day, and I felt that the snow had something to do with the hospital where the child was born. I was there, waiting for a very dramatic scene: I saw two babies in different situations coming out. One baby's parents were wrapped up and a Shanghai brand car was parked at the door. They got on the bus and the bus drove away smoking. Another baby's father pushes a tricycle with a horse-drawn chair on it. The lying-in women are sitting in chairs, and men use three wheels to pick them up. I was moved by two different fates from birth. That photo is not good, but as a beginner, I am speaking with my own feelings and observing people's lives with my heart. This is the most important thing for photographers. "

In Xiao Quan's shot, except for the elite, women are the most common. These two kinds of characters are Xiao Quan's favorite themes, and Xiao Quan has a better understanding of the latter: "The world is too big, and I have the honor to meet very few women. They were met by me intentionally or unintentionally, broke into my black box and became characters in my video file. So I especially want to get an opportunity and responsibility to show them. Whether she is a beauty or not, there is an impulse to take pictures of her at that moment. "

Xiao Quan picked up the camera and took the first photo of a woman. This photo taken at 1975 also appeared in the middle of the film festival. The picture shows Xiaoquan's grandmother. The old man smiled and wore an ancient robe, sitting on a cane chair in his yard and reading a newspaper. At that time, 16-year-old Xiaoquan borrowed a camera from a foreign brand. Although she knows nothing about photography, she is very excited. Xiaoquan takes pictures of her grandmother, mother and sister. Xiao Quan said, "They brought me up when I was young. In my first month as a soldier, I sent my grandmother six dollars. I am especially grateful to my grandmother. " Zheng Gu, the curator, believes that "this kind, vicissitudes, tolerant and calm photo of Grandma Xiao Quan is the prototype of all the female photos he has put in front of us now."