Darkness and Light: A Dialogue with 1000 People

The main content of Heiming: Dialogue with 1000 people: 1995, Heiming changed the photography mode that lasted for 10 years. After another 10 year, Heiming photographed educated youth 100, Rightists 100, monks 100, Tibetans 100, farmers 100, and border people/.

In recent years, Heiming has attracted the attention of all walks of life through the dialogue with more than 1000 people and the analysis, research and publication of individual cases. With the most plain visual images and keen insight, Heiming described the changes of the times, recorded the lives of the public, and completed the social mission of documentary photography with distinctive photographic language and plain words.

Heming no longer regards photography as a matter in a small circle, nor does he regard himself as a pure photographer. The topic that heming is looking for is as interesting as possible. Not photography.

The conversation with 1000 people tells us the true stories of ordinary people in a specific period, a specific event and a specific scene. Maybe you and your family, friends and colleagues are the protagonists in the story. Heiming: Dialogue with 1000 people Editor's recommendation: Photographer from China.

China Photographer selected ten outstanding documentary photographers in contemporary China. They not only constitute a very important stage in the history of contemporary photography in China, but also can bring out a period of history, a crowd and a state of social existence. Zhu Xianmin, Hu Wugong, He, Yu Deshui, Wang Zheng and Heiming recorded the changes of contemporary China society and the living conditions of contemporary China people in their own unique ways. They use images to arouse people's thinking, and also attract the attention of foreign photographers and overseas readers to China. This series is the first systematic compilation and publication of important contemporary documentary photographer research series in China. This book brings together wonderful words from experts and scholars in academia and photography at home and abroad. Each photographer provides about 150 classic works and dozens of photos of life and work, which comprehensively combs the photographer's growth process. The dialogue with 1000 people tries to see the development of China society through the eyes of photographers in China and the unique perspective of China recorded by photographers in China. Dialogue with 1000 people is one of the series, and the photographic works are from Heiming.

Black and bright is a topic, but also a legend. Heming is full of enthusiasm and adventurous interest in his pursuit. He firmly grasped every inspiration and turned it into the final record. The distance from ideal to action is very close to Heiming, and thinking and doing are the symbolic characteristics of Heiming. Heiming's photography is full of endless regrets and reverie about China and China people. Heiming has been bravely "overflowing" the limitations of photography itself, constantly breaking through the boundaries of photography with new imagination and creating new possibilities. For Heiming, photography is actually a space for self-understanding with others, and it is the beginning of life dialogue between self and others.

Cultural critic Zhang Yiwu.

Heiming is a photographer who focuses on recording the living conditions of ordinary people with his lens. He collected many photo collections, such as Through Youth, Images of Tibet, Love Songs in the Garden and so on. He showed people the lives and feelings of ordinary people. In the new kiln at 100, he took a long-term attitude towards the backward and ordinary life of hundreds of people in a small mountain village in Shaanxi.

Sociologist guma.

When we recall our youth through these faces that are no longer young, or even close to ancient times, regret and regret are almost superfluous, because what these photos want us to remember and think about is not youth, but youth, all youth and the inevitable figure, journey or news of youth.

Writer Shi Tiesheng

In The New Kiln at 100, we can see almost all the villagers' faces in a village. After reading the story about their fate, we can see the dream of a group and how it is realized or shattered. Based on these stories, we can also establish a firm view of China.

Historian Guan Si

Black and bright image tracking is his memory of educated youth. In front of his camera, the educated youth are getting old one by one. They are twisted, mature or expressionless. Years have left behind, but at the same time, they have erased the traces of their insults and injuries, unlike the educated youth or several generations of farmers-this is a human face, which transcends ideology, romantic feelings and sentimentality, and also transcends the educated youth's own memory.

Painter Chen Danqing

These portraits are very good. Putting the portrait of a character into the plot scene makes the expression description of the work and the story equally important, and people can perceive the connotation of the character in the span of decades from the limited moment of a frame of photos. Some photos are humorous, humorous and even more sad.

Art critic Li Xianting

I don't remember how many times Heiming has been to the new kiln. He gets depressed several times a year anyway. Once he has settled in, he often goes to the railway station and airport in the city to pick him up and see him off at night. He always gets into a red cloth bag and sleeps on the desk in the school classroom. He doesn't go to the farmer's house for dinner during the day. He eats instant noodles every meal. He has been like this for more than ten years.

Fang Zhizhen, a villager from Xinyaozi, talked with 1000 people.

Know the black light and an image.

Destiny observer

Field research and thematic photography-Jill, Winogrand and heming

Heming is always full of confidence in himself.

Photography towards sociology

Black light in the sky

Heiming's works are always staring at you.

Difficulties in dialogue

Look at the new kiln at 100.

/kloc-a new kiln in 0/00.

Let us know the music in our hearts.

Not just for them.

We have long since stopped treating Heiming as a bad person.

Look at educated youth

40 years of wind and rain

The law of seasons

Unknown youth and staring social memory

Beyond the educated youth's own memory.

Look at Tibet

Go to Tibet

See monks

Give the image of "China" with the photographer's imagination.

My days in Shaolin Temple

Repeat Tiananmen Square

Repeat Tiananmen Square

Running freely —— An interview with Hamming

Black next year spectrum

For decades, the life of China people has been full of rapids. The change of the world is accelerating, but China is still there. Who remembers the broken road from Baishiqiao to Zhongguancun? Occasionally, a motor vehicle passes through the dense shade. In the shade of a tree, an old lady sat under a cicada and sold a three-pronged popsicle behind two big thermos bottles? 197 1, the water intake road is from Suzhou to Hangzhou, and the passenger ship turns in the continuous reeds. The scene at that time was more like a painting painted by people in the Tang and Song Dynasties, but after more than 30 years, the lights of buildings on both sides of the strait have been very, very far away. Nowadays, young people have all heard of the Cultural Revolution and 1976 ... It's like listening to the story of Xuanzong. Speaking of which, even we can't help feeling isolated. Life goes by like water, and some cameras capture us as if we want to capture life through them. This set of books in front of us puts these lenses in front of us with a broader and more penetrating vision than ourselves.

The camera may never lie (think of the photos of two villagers sitting on rice with an acre yield of1.2000 Jin in Xinli Village People's Commune during the Great Leap Forward), but it does have an advantage in documentary. Documentary is certainly not copying reality-it has never been copied from reality. Documentary photographers show their understanding of reality, history and their own hearts through documentary methods; Just as real artistic photography shows the truth of the other side of the world and mind through artistic means. These photos in front of us are not only historical records, but also a unique understanding of reality.

These ten photographers are all researchers, and their photographic works and life experiences illustrate this point. They are doing research with the help of cameras, and research is not just the specialty of university intellectuals. In fact, due to the distance from real life, especially the loss of real care, academic research is getting closer and closer to the canceration of words, which is only suitable for survival in chattering seminars. And these ten researchers, no matter how different their styles and themes are, are all devoted to real care, paying attention to a river, a mountain village, a city, a group of people ... their concern for a certain reality attracts our attention, and their thinking about life inspires our thinking.

A mountain village is a world. The world is a world, not because it covers a vast area. You can fly from Beijing to Paris and from Paris to S? o Paulo, but you just entered and exited a meeting place, and what you heard and said was the same as what you heard at the last meeting. There may be globalization here, but there is no world. The world is the whole life we eat here, laugh here, regret each other here and bury here. This set of photos is the world in front of us.

A river, a mountain village, a city, some places where ordinary people live, even people at the bottom. It is no accident that documentary photographers aim their cameras at the people. Only here can there be real people, real life and real images.

The stories of these ordinary people are not so gorgeous, but they are real because of grounding gas. Today, advertisements and TV screens all over the street are full of beautiful pictures of the countryside. They are all like new handicrafts in handicraft factories, with no land and no history; The United States, and then empty what we saw in those days were empty political propaganda materials. To a sane person, an empty ideal is no longer an ideal, but a disgusting deception. I guess young people with sound minds must be tired or even disgusted when they see those empty green eyes.

These images in front of us are not lacking in beauty. As an amateur, I can't talk about these works from the aspects of image configuration, lighting filtering and abstract texture. But when you open every book, how can you not know that it is an excellent work of art? I don't know how to calculate the texture produced by photos. I guess it's not enough to calculate the texture produced by photos. The texture of life is more needed behind it. Like many city people who live a good life, I am used to passing by. In these photos, the texture of life is stubbornly presented. Although they are documentaries, they seem to be calling us to live a simpler life.

Chen Jiaying: Philosopher

Since 1980s, a number of local photographers have appeared in China. They undertook an important period in the history of China, and together they wrote a unique chapter in the history of photography in China with images full of individuality.

The purpose of compiling this series of books is not only to study the photographic history of China, but also to learn more about the social and cultural development of China and the changes of the whole country from the perspectives of history, sociology and anthropology through photography.

It is a great event in the field of photography publishing to sort out and study the important photographers in the history of photography in China on such a large scale. We try our best to show the charm of every photographer's thoughts and images. Our choice, arrangement and even printing of works reflect our respect and understanding for the photographer himself and his works.

In the process of editing this book, it is sometimes difficult for us to tell whether this era has given them too much aura or whether their shots have made this era more colorful. However, we clearly know that the moments left by photographers who have gone through the "arduous journey" will be the precious wealth of our nation.