Chinese Heritage Landscape Photography__The First Grand Collection of a Century of Chinese Landscape Photography: The First Grand Collection of a Century of Chinese Landscape Photography

Author: Li Boqin, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: If you have mountains in your heart, if you have rivers flowing through your mind, if you can see a green landscape just by closing your eyes, these 300 images will awaken your nostalgia for your past life. Pack your bags and set off to find the most beautiful landscapes in China for a century. Recommended by CCTV's "Instant World" program.
A selection of the finest from over 10,000 outstanding landscape photographs.
Over 200 passionate and dreamlike landscape images.
The creative experiences of over 100 renowned photographers.
The invention of photography has provided humanity with a convenient way to "transport" fragments of nature into personal lives and artificial environments. As a unique visual text, landscape photography has become a substitute for the original natural environment in artificial settings.
Reading landscape photography allows us to reflect on the memories of our hometowns deep within the human heart. From the most poetic and evocative images, we can gaze at landscapes across thousands of miles, as if sitting and admiring mountains and rivers. From these outstanding works, we can read the light and water, the charm of mountains, lakes, grasslands, the pride and dignity of mountains, the tranquility and tenderness of lakes, the fullness and allure of grasslands, the curves and grace of flowing water, the brightness and dimness of the sky, and the colors and fragrances of green trees, grass, and flowers.
The selected works in this book possess a certain uniqueness in their themes or artistic expressions, holding high artistic value and representing the distinct characteristics of Chinese landscape photography across different historical periods. Some have withstood the test of time and are recognized as timeless masterpieces. Others, though not yet long in existence, have already stirred strong responses in the industry and are destined to shine even brighter with the passage of time.