On the Qinhuai River in the boat sound and light shadow

Author: Zhu Ziqing
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Publish Date: 2002-09-01
Features: The "Contemporary Masters' Travelogue and Prose Photography Treasury Series" presented to readers boasts a fresh visual impact. This novelty allows us to confidently declare that the flag of the image-text era has been raised on the strength of this solid achievement. Of course, it is also old, and we can find a solid historical foundation in the relationship between painting and inscriptions in literati painting during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Reading images was once regarded as an indicator of immaturity in thought, superficiality in emotion, and restlessness of the mind. Yet, it is precisely in reading images that we discover an undimmed childlike innocence, lingering vitality, and lively sensibility. Unlike illustrations, in illustrated books, images serve as embellishments to text and are closely tied to it. But for image-text books, images form their own system, echoing each other, being possessed by text and repeatedly slipping through the gaps of text, directly showing their light and color to the world, and attracting text to possess them again.