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Information about Chen Bo.

165438+1On October 25th, China Federation of Literary and Art Circles awarded the 8th "Plastic Arts Achievement Award" and "Performing Arts Achievement Award" to 10 old artists in Beijing, among whom Chen Bo, consultant of China Photographers Association, was the only photographer who won the "Plastic Arts Achievement Award".

Hu Zhenmin, Party Secretary and Vice Chairman of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Feng Yuan, Party Member and Vice Chairman of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Pan, Vice Chairman of China Photographers Association, Luo Gengqian, relevant leaders of writers and artists associations such as drama, music, art, dance and calligraphy, Japanese friends, and more than 200 people from the literary and art circles and the press attended the award ceremony.

Chen Bo, male, 1925, from Fuping, Hebei.

From 65438 to 0945, he began to engage in photography, and successively served as a reporter for the Workers' Daily of Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region, Shijiazhuang Daily and Shijiazhuang Branch of Xinhua News Agency. 1949 founded and edited China Workers Pictorial, the first large-scale photo pictorial in New China. 1956 participated in the establishment of China Photography Society (predecessor of China Photographers Association), 1974 presided over the reconstruction of China Photography Society, and won the Lifetime Achievement Award of the 8th China Photography Award in 2009.

Chen Bo has been engaged in photography for more than half a century, and his works "Laughter in Tiananmen Square", "Premier Zhou plays table tennis" and "The rain is getting more and more enthusiastic" have been widely circulated and exhibited at home and abroad. He also published "Concise Photography Knowledge" and "Random Talk on Landscape Photography" to popularize photography. When Chen Bo delivered his acceptance speech, he said modestly: "I am very grateful to the leaders of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles for their concern for me, and to Mr. Dongzhou for his strong support for China literature and art. At this moment, I miss the old photographers who died with me. They have struggled all their lives and made great contributions to photography. "

The jury of the 8th Plastic Performing Arts Achievement Award consists of 13 experts and scholars. The jury believes that Chen Bo is an outstanding photographer of the older generation trained by our Party, an outstanding organizational leader of photography in China and a pioneer of photography in New China. For more than 60 years, he has tirelessly pursued the art of photography and tirelessly taught people. In the early days of the liberated areas and the founding of New China, he mainly focused on news photography, and then gradually combined documentary with art, shooting many excellent works.

Fang Cheng, artist, Song Zhongyuan, art theorist Huaxia, architecture and urban planning expert Wu, calligrapher, dance performance artist Dao Meilan, Peking Opera performance artist and music performance artist Zhou Xiaoyan were also awarded the prize.

The Plastic Performing Arts Achievement Award was founded in 2002, donated by Shen Jiandong, sponsored by the former Ministry of Culture, and sponsored by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles since 2006. It is mainly used to reward famous artists and researchers in the field of modeling and performing arts in China, to reward the older generation of artists who have made important contributions to the development of contemporary culture and art in China, and to promote the creation and research of contemporary culture and art in China. Since 2002, more than 80 outstanding artists have won the award, including,, Zou Jiandong,, Xu, and other photographers.