Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Photography major - Brief introduction of Hou Dengke.

Brief introduction of Hou Dengke.

Hou Dengke, 1950, born in Fengxiang, Shaanxi. 1966 graduated from junior high school, 1969 joined the work, 1980 engaged in photography. His masterpieces are Children (1983), Adults (1983) and Expedition (1986). Hou Dengke's photography collection was published in 1989. 1997 cooperated with others to shoot and publish the photo album "City of Four Sides". 1998 published "Mike". The works mainly record the living conditions of the lower classes. 1987, participated in the initiation and organization of the national public photography contest "Hard Journey" which had great influence in the photography field in China, and the planning of the large-scale photography collection "Forty Years of Photography in China"; He has published such long literary theories as Present Situation and Thinking (1986), Conscious Course (1987) and In the Name of Reality (1999). He is a representative photographer of documentary photography in China in recent 20 years, and has a wide influence at home and abroad.