Liu Shuyong's personal data

Liu Shuyong is a professor and visual culture critic at the School of Culture and Media of the Central University of Finance and Economics. In the mid-1980s, he devoted himself to the comparative study of visual language and narrative style. In the late 1980s, taking China's calligraphy as a case, this paper makes a comparative study on the differences between the expressionist tradition in China's visual arts and the purification of western abstract language. Since the mid-1990s, photography has been the main research object, focusing on the language forms and classification principles of photography, and then turning to the related problems in the development of contemporary photography and image communication in China. 1997 The masterpiece Power-Dialogue on Conceptual Photography was published in Modern Photography, which put forward a new concept of image form for the first time, and was immediately reprinted by China Photography, which triggered a national discussion on photography theory. Articles such as Four Diseases of Photography in China, What Documentary Photography Brought to Us, What Photography Can Change, What You Do in Tibet, and Basic Composition of Photography Language System have all attracted great attention in the photography field. He is the author of New Series of Contemporary Photography in China and Classic Works of Photographers in the World.