Mike's extended information

Title: Paper Documentary, On the Road Series

Mobile/mobile wheat harvester

Author: Hou Dengke,

Publication: Shanghai Jinxiu Articles Publishing House

Version:No. 1 in July 2000, printedNo. 1 in July 2065.

Book number: ISBN 978-7-5452-0691-3/j,403

Pricing: 25 yuan

200 1 won the first prize of the annual prose of China Writers Magazine.

"Mike" is a unique phenomenon in Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia region of China Loess Plateau, especially in Guanzhong region of Shaanxi Province, which lasted for nearly a hundred years. Every wheat harvest season, "Mike" people go out of their homes and start their "market" life.

This album "Mike" is a documentary about the life course of "Mike" with strong northwest local customs, which photographer Hou Dengke spent more than ten years in-depth life and tracking. For the first time, the album shows and records the true historical and cultural phenomenon of "Mike" in the form of pictures and texts.

Hou Dengke, 1950, born in Fengxiang, Shaanxi, 1969 became a worker of Northwest Railway Bureau in February. He began to take photos in the early 1980s. Influenced by the Star Art Exhibition and the April Film Festival, his styles were free and varied. From 65438 to 0983, he participated in the "Bai Bei Photography Exhibition" and became the first batch of freelance photographers in China. 65438-0985 organized the northwest wind photography exhibition and established the northwest as the main creative theme. In the 1990s, he established the position of documentary photography with the photo collection "City of Four Sides" which he cooperated with two other photographers in 1997 and "Mike" which was shot in 200 1 year. On February 3, 2003, Hou Dengke died of illness at the age of 53.