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Author Lu Xiangquan, member of China Photographers Association, director of Heilongjiang Photographers Association and chairman of Beidahuang Photographers Association. He has been engaged in photography for 50 years. He used to be a photojournalist in the production groups of Northeast Pictorial and People's Pictorial. 1957 The "anti-rightist" movement made him feel wronged. 1958 In the spring, he came to the Great Northern Wilderness with 100,000 demobilized officers and men.

It has been half a century since the first batch of state-owned mechanized farms were founded in 1947. In addition to the initial period of the first decade, Lu Xiangquan was fortunate to participate in the historical process of the last three periods (great development, tortuous progress and reform and opening up) for forty years.

In the past 40 years, he has traveled all over the Sanjiang Plain and every piece of land in the northern and southern foothills of Wanda Mountain. With the expansion of the reclamation area, his footprint has extended to the Lower Xing 'an Mountains and Songnen Plain. His figure is active in agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery, culture, education and health, science and technology and other fronts in the reclamation area, and he has contacted all kinds of pioneers from all corners of the country. From general Wang Zhen, demobilized officers and soldiers, urban educated youth, college students, to old farmers and workers, tractor drivers, breeders, family members and women, to the people of Little Northern Wilderness. Every link in the process from land reclamation, logging, water control, building and road construction to agricultural mechanization and modernization has become the focus of his photography art.

It is rare not only in Heilongjiang province but also in the whole country to reflect the historical picture of the development and construction of the Great Northern Wilderness with photography in such a large span and in many aspects.

1958 "100,000 officers and men explore the northern wilderness" and 1968 "500,000 educated youths come to Heilongjiang", as well as the great changes brought about by 1978 "reform and opening up", it is necessary to have a full-time photographer to record this history. Now it seems that the Bureau of Reclamation and the later General Administration of Reclamation chose him very correctly. Because he is not only skilled in photography, but also very diligent, good at learning and diligent and selfless.

As early as 1954, Lu Xiangquan, as a reporter for People's Pictorial (he was only 22 years old that year), traveled to Baoquanling Farm and took a group of photos of the hard struggle of demobilized soldiers in that year. This is the first time that People's Pictorial has published a picture of the Great Northern Wilderness. The following year, he came to Heilongjiang to take a group of photos of Hezhe people's life and published them in People's Pictorial, with a close-up of one of the characters as the cover. At that time, he was fascinated by the rich northern wilderness customs and the deeds of returning officers and men to reclaim land. He is determined to come more often. Three years later, the anti-rightist movement made him come to the Great Northern Wilderness unexpectedly and willingly. After the "Rightists" took off their hats, Beijing repeatedly asked him to return to his original unit. He declined politely and said, I'm not going anywhere. He fell in love with the Great Northern Wilderness! Forty years!

Paying attention to truth, telling the truth, pursuing nature and getting rid of affectation are the characteristics of Lu Xiangquan's photography art. Each of his works is closely related to reclamation, production, life, society and feelings at that time. It is unpretentious and has a distinct sense of the times and realism. The magnificent and rugged natural scenery of the Great Northern Wilderness, the heroic and industrious pioneers, and the majestic agriculture all incorporate colorful photographic languages into his works.

Clever modeling conception, light color application and contrast between black and white, coupled with skilled darkroom technology, formed his unique visual art. Or highlight the life tension of nature, or emphasize the temperament connotation of people in the Great Northern Wilderness, or exaggerate the collision and harmony between people and nature, and between people and mechanical forces. Ordinary is the shocking power of exhibition art, and black and white breeds emotional color. He expressed his attachment to the black land and his love for the people in the Great Northern Wilderness everywhere. Many of his works have won many awards in national and provincial photo exhibitions and are loved by the audience. 65438+March 0992. Lu Xiangquan's 35-year documentary photography exhibition in the Great Northern Wilderness held by Heilongjiang Provincial Art Museum and Lu Xiangquan's retrospective photography exhibition of educated youth in the Great Northern Wilderness held in Beijing 1994 were well received by the audience. Newspapers and periodicals have given favorable comments on "The Recorder of the History of the Great Northern Wilderness" and "Capturing the Sparks of the Times with a Camera".

Lv Xiangquan is not only an effective photographer in the Great Northern Wilderness, but also a leading figure in the photography group in the reclamation area. Together with another photographer in the reclamation area, Guo Moyong (later transferred to Zhejiang Province), he trained a batch of young photographers for the Great Northern Wilderness, some of whom became top talents and were transported to Beijing, Harbin and other places. During the Corps period, Lv Xiangquan and Guo Moyong held photography classes for many times to cultivate young photographers, and planned to publish three books, I Love the Frontier (1972 Heilongjiang People's Publishing House), The Great Northern Wilderness Intellectual Youth (1973 People's Fine Arts Publishing House) and The Young Generation with Great Achievements (65438), focusing on urban educated youth.

Since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party, Lu Xiangquan has been rejuvenated and spared no effort. With the strong support of the Party Committee of the State Administration of Taxation, it has successively organized and published large-scale picture books "Beautiful and Rich Heilongjiang Reclamation Area" and "A glimpse of China-from the Great Northern Wilderness to the Great Northern Wilderness". The latter was translated into English, Japanese, Russian, German and other languages, and widely publicized the construction achievements of the Great Northern Wilderness reclamation area and the hardships of the people in the Great Northern Wilderness abroad.