Who are the people in the North River Alliance?

From 65438-0986, the "North River Alliance" photography group appeared in Shanghai, and from the beginning, it consciously took the city as its photography theme, especially the city positioning in the images of You Zehong, Wang Yaodong, Mao Yiqing and Zheng Gu. They publicly announced that they would use photography to fight against the alienation of urban people. 1In the late 1980s, under the influence of the "North River Alliance" group, Lu Yuanmin began to create his own mysterious city image world. In Tianjin, Mo Yi also carried out a somewhat tragic personal exploration in the streets of Tianjin with his unique "anti-photography" way. His self-portrait series is more related to the existence and value of a lonely individual in the city, which is the fundamental problem of mankind. In their photographic exploration, these photographers regard the city as a mirror reflecting personal feelings, and express their personal evaluation of the city through confrontation and dialogue between individuals and the city. However, recording the real living standard of urban society has not become their photography theme. Obviously, this has a considerable relationship with the insufficient development of urbanization itself.

1990s, the urbanization process of China society developed rapidly at an abnormal speed. While various social problems have become superficial and sharp, photography has also begun to pay attention to and witness the urbanization process in its unique way.

In the early stage of 1990, Xu Yong in Beijing and Lu Yuanmin in Shanghai gave their own answers to the coming urbanization wave in their own ways. Xu Yong seems to have a premonition of the huge demolition and construction frenzy that the ancient city of Beijing will face. He aimed the camera at the hutong, a traditional building in Beijing, and presented the tranquility in the hutong on the eve of the "storm" with a calm line of sight and a stable picture. At the same time, he also preserved a historical and cultural document for the architectural culture of this ancient city. These homesick images have become the source of nostalgia. Lu Yuanmin's Shanghainese in the Old House presents us with a group of citizens who still live according to their usual life logic when facing great social changes. His Suzhou Creek shows the dark part of Shanghai's "foreign flavor" which is different from the Bund, and gives Shanghainese who are proud of Shanghai as a semi-colonial city a blow by surprise. The importance of these two photographers' photography practice lies in that they both reject or deny wishful thinking about the romantic "modern" imagination of the city in their own way.

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Jiang Wei's Talk on "Beijiang Alliance" and Shanghai

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