Which two photographers do you mean by "South Lang and North Zhang"?

In 1930s, photography in China entered a prosperous period. During this period, a large number of famous photographers stood out, and Lang Jingshan and Zhang Yinquan, known as "Southern Lang and Northern Zhang", were among them.

First, Jingshan

Lang Jingshan (1892 ~ 1995) was born in Huaiyin, Jiangsu. His father likes collecting calligraphy and painting, singing opera and taking pictures, which influenced him since he was a child. 12 years old, Lang Jingshan entered Shanghai Nanyang Middle School; I learned the principle of photography, developing and printing skills from my picture teacher Li Jinglan, so I have an indissoluble bond with photography.

Later, Lang Jingshan entered Shanghai Shenbao and Shanghai Times successively, becoming the earliest photojournalist in China. Although a photojournalist, he is good at copying paintings. Drawing lessons from the "six methods" of traditional painting art, he devoted himself to studying and giving full play to it, and took many scenic photos with the charm of China ink painting, forming a unique and handsome style. These works have been well received by people. 1928165438+10. After visiting the second China Social Film Festival, Zhou Shoujuan wrote: Lang Jingshan has a frame of bamboo sticks, mounted in yellow silk, and the title is Banqiao Picture Book. Its clear shadow is swaying, which seems to be written by Banqiao Taoist.

Since then, Lang Jingshan has focused on multi-bottom synthetic high-light photography. 1934, his first collection of photographs, Qifeng of Spring Trees, was selected for the British Photography Salon. Since then, Lang Jingshan's collection photography is unique in the world.

When talking about the creation of highlights photography, Lang Jingshan wrote: Photography belongs to science, but it also has different interests beyond disciplines, so its art must rely on the integration of theory and technology. Stealing China's painting art has a history of thousands of years, and the management technology has reached a wonderful realm. Photography is painting, and painting is painting. Although its tools are different, the principle of composition is the same, especially the method of collection, which can be more related to painting.

High-light photography is to choose the scenery in most negatives to fit into a piece of paper, that is, to give up the taboo of the picture and take it as appropriate.

Lang Jingshan's early works mostly show the quietness of Buddhism, lonely stream watchers, leisurely water catchers and scenic pavilions. Later, with cranes and deer as themes, he created works such as Bamboo Birds, Green Couples, Pine Crane Aging and Luyuan Changchun. Since the 1960s, Lang Jingshan has turned to creating landscapes with figures, and the model is mainly Zhang Daqian, a master of Chinese painting. Zhang Daqian, dressed as a Taoist priest, plays the leading role in a collection of landscape works, and has created works such as Song Yin Gao Shi, Sitting under Song Yin, and You Xi Fei Quan. Some of these works imitate the works of famous ancient painters, such as Song Yin's Gao Shi, which is very similar to Marin's Listening to the Wind in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Lang Jingshan's collective photography imitates Chinese painting, pays attention to artistic conception and imitates Chinese painting in form. Themes and interests are mostly taken from ancient paintings and poems, which is the unity of China's painting style and photography techniques. It has both personal artistic style and distinctive national characteristics. As Kennedy, president of the American Photographic Society, pointed out: Mr. Lang was born and raised in China, and studied China painting, so he was the first person to apply the principles of China painting to photography.