Chinese Inheritance of Human Photography: A Century of Classic Masterpieces of Chinese Human Photography (Volume 1, 2, 3)

Author: Yang Enpu, Han Zishan
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Publishing Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Recall the most unforgettable youth images of the past 100 years! Nearly 300 exquisite and magnificent classic human body photography masterpieces! 100 outstanding Chinese photographers have recorded the history of images with passion and dreams! Whether human body art, especially human body photography art, is worth affirmation has always been a topic of endless debate among people. In some religious countries, it is still a taboo and forbidden zone. But no matter how people argue, in the long river of art history, it is a spring that cannot be contained, always developing brightly or dimly. As early as the Stone Age, our ancestors used stone carvings and pottery sculptures to depict naked goddesses, as evidenced by unearthed artifacts in Loisel, France; Willenborg, Austria; and Kailazhou and Jianping County, Liaoning Province, China. Although photography was invented later, it did not lag behind. Daguerre immediately focused his lens on naked women as soon as the silver plate photography method was introduced. Even in China, where sexual concepts are relatively strict, people dared to taste this forbidden fruit after the May Fourth Movement. At that time, Liu Banong and others from Beijing's photography group "Guang She" hired the wives of rickshaw pullers as models, pioneering the tradition of photographing the human body in China. It seems that this is a "common interest" of Eastern and Western cultures. Since the 1980s, with the implementation of the reform and opening-up policy, the usually reserved Chinese artists have also begun to boldly engage in the creation of human body art, frequently holding exhibitions and publishing human body art albums. The "Oil Painting Human Body Art Exhibition" in Beijing in 1988 and the "National Human Body Photography Art Exhibition" in Guangzhou in 2001 shocked the literary world. After entering the 21st century, many Chinese photographers moved from the underground to the open, taking models with them to travel and stir up a of human body photography, all of which caused considerable social shock. Some praised it, some doubted it, some waited and saw, and some were, believing it was not in line with the national conditions and harmful to public morals. How should this artistic phenomenon be treated? How should the quality of human body photography works be evaluated? It is very worthwhile to engage in some theoretical discussions. The history of Chinese human body photography art has spanned over 80 years since the 1920s. As the saying goes, "At thirty, one stands firm; at forty, one is free from doubt." It has now reached the age of maturity. Today, Chinese human body photography has officially entered the art hall, but in its development, there have been ups and downs and lessons, as well as the phenomenon of filling the ranks, which deserve much summarization and reflection.