The Future Trend of China's Scenery Photography Works

"The future trend of China scenery photography" is a common topic. It can be said that opinions vary, and people of insight even organized the "China Landscape Photography High-end Forum" to sort out this topic. Although this proposition is difficult to explain, the continuous discussion on this issue by photographers and literary theorists has given a relatively clear context for the future direction of landscape photography to some extent.

There are different views on landscape photography. When Mr. Yuan prefaced Mr. Ding Zunxin's The Essence and Creation of Photographic Beauty, he put forward the concept of "direct combination of truth and beauty" on the essence of photography. Yes, the "truth" and "beauty" of photography have naturally formed since the birth of photography. In recent ten years, with the continuous development and differentiation of photography schools and theories, as well as the rapid development of the scientific and technological content of photographic equipment in recent years, the debate about the "truth" and "beauty" of photographic pictures is endless, with different opinions, but most colleagues still recognize and agree that "truth" and "beauty" are the most basic and fundamental essence of photography. Although everyone has different understanding and recognition of the nature of photography because of the different times, society, environment, status and conditions, the pure natural beauty of "carving nature" is always recognized by most people. Landscape photography is no exception, first of all, we should pursue its true and simple natural beauty. China's landscape photography should be combined with the national culture and regional culture of the Chinese nation, and pay more attention to the pursuit of natural beauty, true beauty and simple beauty as one of the feelings of the Chinese nation. It can be said that natural beauty is the basis of all artistic beauty.

As far as landscape photography is concerned, today's landscape photography is not limited to natural scenery, but also includes industrial scenery, agricultural scenery and urban scenery. The "nature" we pursue should give people a comprehensive and extremely rich appreciation from the overall image, such as their own sense of space, movement, prosperity, change, rich sound and color, mobility, harmony and change, and all these natural things should be selectively and truly expressed (shooting and making).

Based on the fact that the essence of photography is "the direct combination of truth and beauty", and China scenery photography, represented by naturalism, is the representative of the direct combination of truth and beauty, it is necessary to pay attention to and discuss the question "Is beauty a misunderstanding or a trend", which has been debated most recently in China photography circle. Mr. Li Shaobai, a photographer who is good at shooting landscapes, clearly shows his view that "aestheticism" is a realm. He said: "It should be admitted that besides recording society and history, exposing ugliness, criticizing reality or expressing oneself and venting emotions, photography is more meaningful to participate in aesthetics. Facing the current fashion trend that belittles art and beauty, no matter what its name is-mass, humanistic care, morality, historical ethics, avant-garde, postmodern, concept; Don't believe it, whether it's serious, frivolous or otherwise. The advanced form of photography must be art, and the essence of art must be aestheticism. Aestheticism is not a hegemony or monopoly, but a resistance to vulgarity, vulgarity and hypocrisy. It is also a kind of persistence, insisting on the purest and purest human nature; It is also a kind of care, care for kindness and weakness ... "He also said:" Aestheticism is really a realm, a very high realm ... Whether criticizing reality, examining yourself or praising nature, Aestheticism can make you realize the eternal value of the spirit and make the camera in your hand a weapon to materialize this value. "

Throughout the excellent landscape photography works at home and abroad, all of them are based on "truth" and win with "beauty", leaving a deep impression on the world and becoming classic works handed down from generation to generation. For landscape photography, the words "truth" and "beauty" should not be avoided. The natural environment has always been a part of our life. Attaching importance to nature and even personalizing it, the so-called "harmony between man and nature" is the characteristic of China culture. In the cultural and artistic traditions of China for thousands of years, the understanding of nature can be said to run through all the media. Landscape painting has always been the mainstream of Chinese painting, and poetry literature is full of description, reference and extension of nature. On this cultural basis, landscape photography with the theme of nature has successfully replaced pen and ink, and entered the spiritual appeal of traditional painting, allowing China photographers to express the noble, ethereal, easy-going, sad, elegant and simple ancient cultural spirit through photography. Gradually formed the "bright spot photography" represented by Lang Jingshan in the 1920s and 1930s; Documentary scenery photography in 1970s and 1980s; Theme photography and landscape sketch photography in the early 1990s; National public landscape photography after the middle and late 1990s. No matter how the times change, natural scenery photography has always occupied a very important position in photographic works, so that in the public impression of China, whenever photography is mentioned, it is associated with landscape photography (portrait, technology, etc. ). It can be seen that the formation of this view has a great influence on China's long-standing traditional landscape painting, China's literary poetry and traditional cultural aesthetic consciousness. Because in aesthetics or poetry, it contains human yearning for freedom and imagination of a better life.

Of course, the forms and methods of natural scenery photography can be varied. The main forms and methods are: pursuing natural light and shadow, highlighting beautiful images, recording landscape images, grasping and reproducing folk customs, folk customs and people's feelings, researching, looking for and expressing urban scenery. It has been suggested that there are two trends in landscape photography: one is landscape documentary, which truly reproduces natural ecology and resources and emphasizes the pursuit of cultural and scientific research values; The other is freehand brushwork and lyricism, which expresses the photographer's mood and sentiment through the scenery and emphasizes the pursuit of aesthetic value. Through the picture, I pour out my feelings of being intoxicated with nature, praise the beauty of mountains and rivers, and praise the harmony between heaven and earth. Because photography is a visual art, it can't directly express the photographer's inner feelings like poetry. It is what the scenery can be seen in the picture. This requires photographers to mobilize various modeling elements (such as light and shadow, color, composition, instant and spatial perspective, etc.). ) express your feelings with light and shadow, capture the beauty of natural light, color, shape, line, tone, rhyme and flow, thus expressing your spiritual image world.

Advocating "nature" landscape photography is an eternal topic reason: First of all, landscape photography is directly based on reality and objective existence, and it is a true portrayal of nature. "Natural" landscape photography, with its photographic essence of directly combining truth, goodness and beauty, determines the inevitability of its own existence and development. Second, because the "natural" landscape photography works have China characteristics, they are deeply loved by Chinese people. Third, "natural" landscape photography is close to people's hearts in terms of expression and emotional expression, which is deeply rooted in people's hearts and full of intimacy, making everyone even more reluctant to give up. Modern beauty is inseparable from traditional beauty and natural beauty. Therefore, "natural" landscape photography and works, whether past, present or future, will always be the pursuit and love of China photographers.

Looking back on the course of China's landscape photography, in the history of photography in China, which has gone through nearly a hundred years, landscape photography not only occupies a very important position, but also produces a large number of excellent works and excellent photographers. With the development of the historical era, landscape photography has entered the artistic peak of "letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend" in the artistic genre, which laid the foundation for the future survival, development and innovation of landscape photography. With the formation of the national photography trend, the diversified landscape photography situation in China has been formed, and it will go further and further on the road of landscape photography art creation in the future. "Diversified" landscape photography is undoubtedly the necessity of landscape photography in the new period. It can be predicted that this "diversified" landscape photography will not only be popularized and improved, but also form a new genre and trend.

Early landscape photography, represented by Lang Jingshan, sought inspiration from China's classical poems, took mountains and rivers, sea of clouds, solitary boats and sails as raw materials, copied the meaning and rhyme of ink painting, imitated the structure and composition of ink painting, inscribed pictures, and pieced together images by darkroom superposition technology, thus forming Lang's "high-light photography". Although the object of this kind of "high-light photography" initiated by Master Lang Jingshan is landscape photography, it is by no means landscape photography in a strict sense. The real landscape photography began in the early 1950s after the founding of 1949 New China. A few photographers in New China appeared while praising the great rivers and mountains of the motherland.

Landscape photography rose on a large scale after the Cultural Revolution 1979- 1980. After regaining the aesthetic power and freedom, photographers in China put their feelings in the pure nature, and then purified their hearts from it. It captures melancholy leaves in autumn, shy poplars in spring, rain drops in summer afternoon and haze after snow in winter with delicate and sensitive vision. At the same time, landscape photography works with the nature of reporting and sightseeing, which are specially used in print media, are also booming. During this period, Chen Fuli's salon-style beauty photography strongly influenced and changed the tastes and trends of mainland photographers, catered to the needs of the times and society, and had certain progressive significance. After Sharon's landscape photography has occupied the mainstream position in China's photography ecology, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, landscape photography turned to landscape sketch represented by Ethan. Li Yuan's landscape works are all lyrical sketches that capture a scene, a thing, a light and a color from the big scene, full of poetry. He is good at using light and shadow language skillfully and accurately, capturing images, choosing scenery and expressing his spiritual world and image world. The scenery shot by Li Yuan is smart, real and full of life, full of vitality, which reflects his deep understanding of nature and sincere feelings. During this period, the leading figures of landscape photography emerged in an endless stream, each with its own "brilliant ideas". They insist on "not repeating others or themselves" in their creation, so as to embody the aesthetic view of natural landscape of "the connection between things and me" and "the unity of man and nature". While expressing natural beauty, let the works enlighten the audience in aesthetic pleasure. Welcome works, with profound philosophy, permeate the rhythm of music art, are abstract and have certain connotation, symbolic and broad, and induce people to associate freely. Some photographers have a unique pursuit of the use of photography language such as light, shadow and composition. With solid technology and technical foundation, a new genre of landscape photography has been formed. There are also landscape photographers who are rooted in the west, based on the local area, looking for special topics and caring for the scenery, and have been shooting the scenery and customs for a long time. There are also many landscape photographers who pursue themselves, have individuality and realism, or emphasize realism. Others put forward a new proposition of "documentary photography of scenery". In short, landscape photography is no longer a simple "aesthetic" and "natural" trend. It has broken through various imprisonments and formed a situation in which a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend. China landscape photography has won a high reputation in international and domestic landscape photography competitions, and has been recognized by colleagues in the international photography industry.

As for the "multi-genre" landscape photography, which has been formed and recognized, it is still in the medium-term growth stage because it is not fully mature, and various art factions need to constantly pursue and improve their artistic complex and artistic conception in the long-term photography practice; Pursuing and perfecting artistic taste and value; Pursuing and perfecting the concept and theory of photography is by no means a short-term practical process, but it takes a long historical period and a long tempering to improve, make achievements and develop on the existing basis. At the same time, it is also determined by the non-expressiveness, non-replicability and non-interpretability of art, so "diversified" landscape photography will continue to survive, develop, innovate and improve in the following years, making it more mature, perfect and rational.