Brief introduction of JamesWongHowe's life

Who's JamesWongHowe? He is from Taishan, Guangdong, China. At the age of five, he immigrated to Washington State with his father. Huang Fu is a railway worker. JamesWongHowe didn't even finish high school. When he was a teenager, he made some money by smashing stones, bought a bunch of waste parts and made a camera. He was banned by his father when he first used it, because the camera installed by the indigenous method had no border. When he took a photo with his family, he couldn't even take a picture of his head. Huangfu was superstitious and thought it was an ominous sign, so it was forbidden to use it from now on, but I didn't expect this short-lived machine to lay the foundation for my son's life.

Our biological mother stayed in the countryside of China, and Huang's father came to the United States with another mistress. This woman was mean to JamesWongHowe so that he could leave home at the age of fifteen and make a living in Los Angeles. He played professional boxing (the lightest weight) and worked as a handyman in a photo studio. He entered Hollywood in 19 17. He started by sweeping the floor and washing dishes, then worked as a war correspondent and assistant photographer, and became the main photographer in 1922. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the film industry just started. 1926, filming "Curse" starring clara bow at Paramount Film Company. Exquisite and magnificent image style makes a generation of stunners become three-dimensional sexy goddesses on the flat screen, captivating all beings, and the effect is wonderful. When other Hollywood studios saw this scene, they hurriedly invited JamesWongHowe to be the photography director of this new film. 1928, MGM produced Laugh, Joker, Laugh, which made JamesWongHowe reach the peak. After shooting some of Hollywood's most beautiful sexy goddesses, he had the opportunity to capture john gilbert, the superstar of the first student in the silent film period.

At the same time, JamesWongHowe returned to his birthplace, China, and picked up the camera, trying to keep some local customs and cultural fragments with the lens. Although the film he originally planned to direct failed to start shooting, the footage he shot during his trip was edited by German director JosephvonSternberg into his film Shanghai Express at 1932.

Returning from China to Hollywood, where he has lived for many years, JamesWongHowe is faced with a film industry that has fallen into a full-scale panic because of emerging recording technology and audio movies; JamesWongHowe soon found his new position, got used to the changes that "sound" brought to photography, and immediately devoted himself to new jobs and new films. 1930 was the heyday of JamesWongHowe, who earned himself the nickname "LowKeyHowe" in the industry. "Low key" refers to a special photography style. In the heyday of black-and-white movies, the contrast of light between black and white is the most important key to determine the dramatic tension and focus of the whole picture. Gao Fancha called it "low-key" and low contrast called it "high-key". JamesWongHowe's studio interior photography style is based on the contrast between light and shade in Gao Fancha, which subtly highlights the drama. 1934, he completed the classic comedy business card TheThinMan in 18 working days, and completed another classic romantic film Manhattan Melody in 28 working days. His high work efficiency makes him considered as one of the most ideal studio workers. He is already busy, and the movie is more like. At about the same time, the film company decided to add his real name "Huang" (Cantonese transliteration is Wong) to the original "JamesHowe" to increase the exoticism. Since then, "JamesWongHowe" has become an important name in Hollywood.

Compared with other photographers who are famous for their steadiness, JamesWongHowe's photography technique has always maintained a high degree of flexibility, in order to obey the different techniques of different directors and different psychological states of different scripts and roles. 1938, he starred in the movie Algiers starring sexy actress hedy lamarr, and was nominated for the best photography in his life. 1947, when shooting the boxing scene in the movie "BodyandSoul", he let the photographer with the camera put on roller skates for the first time and walked around the boxing ring, which directly brought the audience into the core of the intense action scene. 195 1 year, there was a bullfight in another movie "Bullfighting", and JamesWongHowe was there.

/kloc-JamesWongHowe was the leading big-name photographer in Hollywood in the 1930s. He bought a luxury car and drove it around. A China man drives a famous car around Hollywood? Are you kidding? His conspicuous behavior did cause some criticism in white society. For example, once, because he booked a magnificent restaurant in China, the local print media came to interview him. In order to take a panoramic view of the restaurant, the newspaper photographer kept approaching the expressway behind him. JamesWongHowe kindly reminded the photographer that "just put on a wide-angle lens". The little photographer actually replied in front of the master: "What are you making a fuss about? Just mind your face! "

In the 1940s, because of the war, there was an anti-Asian ripple in American society. JamesWongHowe is often mistaken for a "Japanese devil" and humiliated. In a rage, he hung the seal "I'm from China" on his skirt. Although the situation has improved slightly, it has not improved much. His close friend JamesCagney actually studied to support his friends. JamesWongHowe's wife SanoraBabb and his marriage are also full of twists and turns because of JamesWongHowe's racial problems; Because California didn't abolish the law prohibiting intermarriage until 1949, the couple who got married in Paris, France three days after the law was abolished in 1937 finally found a judge willing to marry them. The judge's reason is really interesting: "It seems that this little white girl is old enough to make her own decisions;" If so, then she will marry this yellow race, and it is none of my business to be a cow and a horse in the future. " So the judge agreed to witness the wedding, and their marriage relationship was truly recognized by law in the United States.