Lang Jingshan, a master of ink and wash photography

Lang Jingshan (1892— 1995) was born in Huaiyin, Langjia Village, Youbu Town, Lanxi, Zhejiang Province. His father likes collecting calligraphy and painting, singing opera and taking pictures, which influenced him since he was a child. /kloc-When he was 0/2 years old, Lang Jingshan went to Shanghai Nanyang Middle School to study, and he studied photography principles, developing and printing skills under the painting teacher Li Jinglan, which made him have an indissoluble bond with photography.

Later, Lang Jingshan entered Shanghai Shenbao and Shanghai Times successively, becoming the earliest photojournalist in China. Although a photojournalist, he is good at copying paintings. Drawing lessons from the "six methods" of traditional painting art, he devoted himself to studying and giving full play to it, and took many scenic photos with the charm of China ink painting, forming a unique and handsome style. These works have been well received by people.

1928165438+10. After visiting the second China Social Film Festival, Zhou Shoujuan wrote: Lang Jingshan has a frame of bamboo sticks, mounted in yellow silk, and the title is Banqiao Picture Book. Its clear shadow is swaying, which seems to be written by Banqiao Taoist.

Since then, Lang Jingshan has focused on multi-bottom synthetic high-light photography. 1934, his first collection of photographs, Qifeng of Spring Trees, was selected for the British Photography Salon. Since then, Lang Jingshan's collection photography is unique in the world.

When talking about the creation of highlight photography, Lang Jingshan wrote:

"Photography belongs to science, but it also has interests outside the discipline, so its art must rely on the integration of rational methods and technology. Stealing China's painting art has a history of thousands of years, and the management technology has reached a wonderful realm. Photography is painting, and painting is painting. Although its tools are different, the composition principle is the same, especially the highlight method, which is more related to painting. "

High-light photography, that is, choosing the scenery in most negatives to make it fit a piece of paper, that is, giving up the taboo of the picture and taking it as appropriate.

Lang Jingshan's early works mostly show the quietness of Buddhism, lonely stream watchers, leisurely water catchers and scenic pavilions. Later, with cranes and deer as themes, he created bamboo birds, two couples in the shade, pine cranes aging, deer garden Changchun and other works. Since the 1960s, Lang Jingshan has turned to creating landscapes with figures, and the model is mainly Zhang Daqian, a master of Chinese painting. Zhang Daqian, dressed as a Taoist priest, plays the leading role in a collection of landscape works, and has created such works as Gao Shi in Songyin, Sitting in Songyin and Flying Springs in Youxi. Some of these works imitate the works of famous ancient painters, such as Song Yin's Gao Shi, which is very similar to Marin's Listening to the Wind in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Lang Jingshan's collective photography imitates Chinese painting, pays attention to artistic conception and imitates Chinese painting in form. Themes and interests are mostly taken from ancient paintings and poems, which is the unity of China's painting style and photography techniques. It has both personal artistic style and distinctive national characteristics. As Kennedy, president of the American Photographic Association, pointed out:

"Mr. Lang comes from China and studies China's paintings, so he is the first person to apply China's painting principles to photography."

1April 3, 995, the master photographer Lang Jingshan died in Taipei at the age of 105.