Shi's character evaluation

Comrade Shi has been engaged in photography for 50 years and has experienced the bonfire years of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the Liberation War. He was one of the pioneers of photography in our party's base areas behind enemy lines in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period. He traveled around the motherland, visited many countries in the world, and took a large number of photographs that were deeply loved by audiences at home and abroad, making him famous far and near. Although some of his works have experienced a long history, they still have realistic persuasiveness and artistic appeal to people and are called immortal works.

During the revolutionary war years, he took a large number of news photos, recorded the revolutionary activities of our party leaders, and reflected the glorious deeds of heroic fighting between the military and civilians in the liberated areas.

The main representative works are Chairman Mao and the Little Eighth Road, Burying Mines, Yanling Team on Baiyangdian Lake, Tunnel Warfare, Rongguanxiu, Army Mother, Over the Wall, and Liberation of Zhangjiakou. These works are the products of his deep life, fighting with commanders and soldiers and keenly capturing typical images in the special environment of the war years. They are the crystallization of the author's high ideological level and artistic accomplishment. Many works are of high historical value and record the history of the people's revolutionary struggle in China. Among them, "Yanling Team on Baiyangdian-Jizhong Water Guerrilla" was carefully conceived and filmed after he went in and out of Baiyangdian six times and observed the fighting life of water guerrillas.

Shi is not only full of exploration and innovation spirit, but also good at summing up practical experience. Since the war years, he has diligently cultivated the virgin land of photography theory and written a large number of articles on photography theory. The book Photography Theory and Practice is an important summary of his 50-year photography creation practice and theoretical research achievements. In addition, he has written papers such as Talking about News Photography, The Work of Photojournalists, A Brief History of Photography in China, and monographs such as News Photography and Photojournalists, Photography and Practice.

Shi has great attainments in photography. He is not only good at news photography, but also has a deep foundation in portrait, scenery and stage photography. His works have a wide range of themes, novel and diverse forms of expression, and are characterized by truthfulness, naturalness, vividness and simplicity.