What artistic achievements has Beijing Lighting Society made?

After entering the 20th century, with the development and spread of photography technology, the increasing progress of photographic equipment and the gradual popularization of small cameras, more and more people have mastered photography technology, and the subject matter of photography has also expanded. All these have laid the foundation for the rise of many photography societies in China.

From the 1920s to 1930s, China's photographic art developed from bud to maturity. During this period, photography societies mushroomed all over the country. They promoted the germination and prosperity of photography, and left a trail blazer mark in the history of photography in China.

Beijing guangshe

As a famous photography art group in China, Beijing Guangshe took the lead in raising the banner of photography art and opened up the road of artistic photography. The activity time of Guangshe was less than 10 years, but it pushed photography onto the art stage and made due contributions to the pioneers.

The predecessor of Guangshe was 1923 "Art Photography Research Association" established by Peking University photographers. The earliest members, only seven or eight people including Huang Zhenyu, Chen Wanli and Qian Jinghua, were based in Dazhiying, and soon moved to Chen Wanli's residence in Li Pingan. 1926, a number of new members, such as Liu Bannong and Lao Yanruo, joined the Optical Society, and the number of members grew to more than 20. At this time, Guangshe is no longer a photography agency of Peking University, but a veritable Beijing Guangshe.

The main activity of Guangshe is to hold a photography exhibition and publish a collection of photography works-Beijing Guangshe Yearbook. From June 1924 to June 14 to June15, Guangshe held the first member photography exhibition in Central Park (now Zhongshan Park in Beijing), which was the first film exhibition held by a photography group in the history of photography in China. The film festival was well received by all parties, and five or six thousand people came to visit it in two days, which greatly encouraged the confidence of the members. As a result, the annual public exhibition was held for five consecutive sessions.

After the Fourth Film Festival, 16 people who participated in the film festival selected 2 to 5 photographs, including 56 * *, and sorted out the first episode of Beijing Guangshe Yearbook, which was published in 1, 928, 1. This is the earliest collection of photographs published in China. It was printed in 16. Liu Bannong wrote a preface and wrote a short story. Wang wrote Notes of Jingguang Society, which described the purpose and history of Guangshe.

Among the members of the Optical Society, there are many early famous photographers. Chen Wanli, who is also known as "the four outstanding artists of optical society" with Qian Jinghua, Wu Yuzhou and Lao Yanruo, is one of the pioneers of photography art in China.

Chen Wanli was born in 1892 and began to study photography in 19 19. At that time, many people thought that photography was absolutely mechanical, and as long as they had technical experience, they could succeed. On the other hand, Chen Wanli thinks these views are "short-sighted and fallacious". He once said: besides mechanical action and technical experience, it is important to take materials, compose yin and yang, and back to back.

In his own photography practice, Chen Wanli first realized the aesthetic function of photography, and put forward the viewpoint of "creating beauty" in photography, that is, in the realm of "extreme beauty", he discovered and "captured beauty" and created natural beauty into artistic beauty that integrated and expressed the photographer's personality. This is the most basic and key issue in the theory of photography art. Putting forward this viewpoint and verifying it in practice is Chen Wanli's contribution to China's early photography aesthetics.

Chen Wanli created several "firsts" in the photography history of China: 1924. He published the first personal photography collection of China, Gale Collection, which included 12 photos. At the same time, the preface he wrote for "Gale Collection" is the first declaration of China's photography art. From 65438 to 0926, personal photography exhibitions were held in Suzhou, Shanghai and Xiamen, which was the first time in China.

Lao Yanruo (1883 ~ 1966), one of the "four outstanding artists of Guangshe", was born in a family of literati. Under the influence of his father, he loved art from an early age. Before and after the May 4th Movement, he took an active part in photography creation and became a member of the Light Society.

If Lao Yan is good at landscape photography, there are many excellent photographs in the world. There are five works in the first episode of Beijing Guangshe Yearbook: Morning Evening, Dead West Western jackdaw, Seeking Beauty Together, Fisherman and Goldfish. Other representative works include Snow on One Shoulder, Morning Fog, Goose, Camel Pulling, Horse Racing and so on. His works have a wide range of themes, natural and vivid pictures, rigorous composition, full of poetry and painting, and rich in China traditional artistic style.

Lao Yanruo is not only an early photographer in China, but also an expert and inventor in science and technology. He was very innovative and developed a variety of photographic equipment, such as magnifying glasses and exposure clips, which contributed to the development of early photographic equipment industry in China.