Who is Shen Jiguang?

Shen Jiguang, a famous oil painter and photographer. Born in Yangfang Hutong, Xicheng, Beijing, 1945, graduated from the Fine Arts Department of the Central Academy of Drama. The main photographic/written works include Old Objects: A History of Civilian Resurrection, Lao She's Beijing, Old Events in the South of the City, Fragments of Old Beijing: Photographs by Shen Jiguang, etc.

Old Beijing Fragments Photo Collection and Book Inserts Lao She's Old Story of Beijing and the South of the City is Mr. Shen Jiguang's painstaking work in recent years. Beijing has an ancient culture, full of cultural and historical relics. With a serious attitude and keen observation, Mr. Shen Jiguang has captured some traces that are often ignored or even dismissed by ordinary people, but still exist in reality. These "incomplete but not discarded" relics have their true history and contain the long and profound traditional culture of China. He thinks in staring at history, shoots attentively in thinking, and uses love. Hutongs, quadrangles, houses, alleys, screen walls, inns, theaters, pawn shops, cloth shops, jade shops, grocery stores, silver houses and coffin shops are all included in the painting, because they are all integrated with the cities and people where they live, so that we can appreciate the more ancient, more real, more ordinary and more humanistic scenery of Beijing. This is the uniqueness and value of the work.

What is particularly commendable is that while telling the picture, it is interpreted with poetic words, which adds poetic meaning to old Beijing and gives people artistic beauty and understanding. Like the "three long lanes" in the first book "Pursuing the Primitive Nature", the picture text is: "One, two, three ... endless hutongs. The grass on the roof was blown by the wind and tilted, and the sun set by half. When it rained, the snail climbed out of nowhere and climbed the wall. The moss and tiles were green together ... We were moved by these. " There are different places of interest in Beijing. It is really a pleasure for readers to enjoy pictures while chewing words. The "old building" on Tong Linge Road, the "old house" on Guo Fu Street and the "slate house" on the Arctic Pavilion in Wandering is meaningful, all of which have integrated western culture, including architectural style. The "brick carving on the roof" of Eurasian Hutong: the word "ten thousand": the inscription on the lintel of Xufeng West Lane: "Purple gas comes from the east" looks unpretentious on the surface, but its connotation is full of life breath and emotional appeal. There are various styles and customs, including "Zhengyangmen Archway", which was rebuilt when Eight-Nation Alliance entered Beijing 1902 and was destroyed by fire. "imperial academy Confucius Temple", the Jinshi Monument in Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties 198, is like a stone forest; The former site of Tsinghua University still retains the front colonnade and bronze doors of the Romanesque dome auditorium; The former site of Fu Jen Catholic University in Dingfu Street was originally founded by the American Benedictine Church, and the school building was rebuilt from the former residence of Qing Palace. Haidian "yenching university former site" and now Beijing Dajing "Yannan Garden" are still full of the breath of a generation of cultural masters; The former residence of Qi Baishi, a great artist, once lived in the cross-car alley in Xicheng, which was called "300 lithographs". As the carrier of this ancient civilization, the only remaining "last courtyard doors" in the ancient capital, the dilapidated "door panels" and the once prosperous Dashilan Jewelry Street in the front door, such as the sigh of "the sunset is infinitely near dusk", are irretrievably disappearing. At the end of the album, the meaning of "plants have feelings" is silently told.