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RENOWN CHINESE PHOTOGRAPHERS

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发表于 2016-4-20 06:36:25 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
Depicting China: Can Chinese photographers scoop more awards?

[size=1.2]Hong Kong (CNN)The work of Chinese photojournalists has often gone unrecognized outside their homeland -- but this is changing, and fast.

Eleven Chinese photographers have been shortlisted for the 2016 Sony World Photography Awards, with seven of those in the professional competition. Chinese entries to the awards have surged 263% from last year. The winners will be announced in London April 21.
And earlier this year, Zhang Lei, a photographer at the Tianjin Daily, won a top prize in theWorld Press Photo Contestfor his image of Tianjin, a city in northern China, shrouded in haze.
Stunning images chronicle China's dramatic changes
"Individual Chinese photographers have started to earn fellowships and awards abroad," says Judy Polumbaum, Professor Emerita of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa.
[size=1.2]"Photojournalists elsewhere have become aware of their Chinese peers... we are probably seeing the beginning of broader awareness."
[size=1.2]The plaudits come despite the Chinese state controlling much of the country's media.

[size=1.2]Censors place restrictions on what journalists can and can't report on, and the journalistic environment has become more restrictive since President Xi Jinping took power in 2012, withcritical journalists detained and an editor resigning over the crackdown.
[size=1.2]However, winners of the World Press Photo awards, which China regards as the "photo Olympics," find themselves lauded and feted on national television and in newspapers.



[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]18 photos: [size=1.06667]Photographer chronicles China's dramatic changes

[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]The village of Sanjiang, Guangxi photographed in 1988. The characters on the village gate read "Long live Chairman Mao" -- the most common political slogan during the Cultural Revolution.
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[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]18 photos: [size=1.06667]Photographer chronicles China's dramatic changes

[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]An old lady looks at pedestrians at Beijing's Longtanhu park in 1988. In the 1980s, Chinese women were liberated from the dull revolutionary uniforms and started to wear more feminine clothing.
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[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]18 photos: [size=1.06667]Photographer chronicles China's dramatic changes

[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]A watermelon vendor takes a nap in Beijing, 1995. Wang says he likes to capture life's more mundane moments.
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[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]18 photos: [size=1.06667]Photographer chronicles China's dramatic changes

[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]A man sells grapes from his bicycle in Kashgar, Xinjiang province in 2004. Wang Wenlan has traveled across the nation to document life in different regions such as Xinjiang, which is home to the mainly Muslim Uyghurs.
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[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]18 photos: [size=1.06667]Photographer chronicles China's dramatic changes

[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]A boy from a nomadic family leans on a rug in 2010 near Ili, Xinjiang.
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[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]18 photos: [size=1.06667]Photographer chronicles China's dramatic changes

[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]Security guards in Beijing hold five rings to make the Olympic symbol. Beijing hosted the Summer Olympics in 2008.
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[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]18 photos: [size=1.06667]Photographer chronicles China's dramatic changes

[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]A garbage disposal plant Changping, Beijing.
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[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]18 photos: [size=1.06667]Photographer chronicles China's dramatic changes

[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]A boy draws in the National Art Museum of China, Beijing 2012.
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[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]18 photos: [size=1.06667]Photographer chronicles China's dramatic changes

[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]Wang Wenlan is one of China's top photojournalists and has been taking photos for five decades.
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[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]18 photos: [size=1.06667]Photographer chronicles China's dramatic changes

[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]Cyclists pedal on Guangxin Road, Shanghai in 1991. Wang Wenlan's most famous series of photographs of bicycles tracks China's relationship with the bicycle -- the most common means of transport in the 1980s and early 1990s.
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[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]18 photos: [size=1.06667]Photographer chronicles China's dramatic changes

[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]A family travels by bike in Guangxi, 1988. The bicycle once was a family's most precious asset.
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[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]18 photos: [size=1.06667]Photographer chronicles China's dramatic changes

[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]Bicycles were gradually replaced by motors and cars and have now almost vanished from the streets in China.
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[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]18 photos: [size=1.06667]Photographer chronicles China's dramatic changes

[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]A groom carries his bride through a field in Baishan, Jilin province in 2007 as an old man looks on. Wang's work often reveals the clashes between tradition and modernity in China.
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[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]18 photos: [size=1.06667]Photographer chronicles China's dramatic changes

[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]Wang has also covered most major news events in China of the past four decades. Here, people gather in Tiananmen Square in Beijing in an unprompted outpouring of grief for late Premier Zhou Enlai in 1976. He took the photos secretly and they weren't published until the 1980s.
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[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]18 photos: [size=1.06667]Photographer chronicles China's dramatic changes

[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]Men with shovels run to the rescue in the aftermath of the massive Tangshan earthquake in 1976. The photo was published a decade later.
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[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]18 photos: [size=1.06667]Photographer chronicles China's dramatic changes

[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]People gather in Beijing to celebrate the downfall of the Gang of Four. The gang's leading figure was Mao's Zedong's last wife Jiang Qing and they were blamed by the government for the worst excesses of the Cultural Revolution.
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[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]18 photos: [size=1.06667]Photographer chronicles China's dramatic changes

[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]Aviator sunglasses were must-have items among the young and hip in the early 1980s. They became popular after U.S. TV series "The Man from Atlantis" was shown in China.
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[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]18 photos: [size=1.06667]Photographer chronicles China's dramatic changes

[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]A man carries a load of stones on his back on the Great Wall in 1984. China restored the Great Wall at Badaling in 1984, making it more accessible. It's one of the most popular tourist sites in Beijing.
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[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]18 photos: [size=1.06667]Photographer chronicles China's dramatic changes

[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]The village of Sanjiang, Guangxi photographed in 1988. The characters on the village gate read "Long live Chairman Mao" -- the most common political slogan during the Cultural Revolution.
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[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]18 photos: [size=1.06667]Photographer chronicles China's dramatic changes

[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]An old lady looks at pedestrians at Beijing's Longtanhu park in 1988. In the 1980s, Chinese women were liberated from the dull revolutionary uniforms and started to wear more feminine clothing.
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[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]18 photos: [size=1.06667]Photographer chronicles China's dramatic changes

[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]A watermelon vendor takes a nap in Beijing, 1995. Wang says he likes to capture life's more mundane moments.
[size=0.8]Hide Caption
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[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]18 photos: [size=1.06667]Photographer chronicles China's dramatic changes

[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]A man sells grapes from his bicycle in Kashgar, Xinjiang province in 2004. Wang Wenlan has traveled across the nation to document life in different regions such as Xinjiang, which is home to the mainly Muslim Uyghurs.
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[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]18 photos: [size=1.06667]Photographer chronicles China's dramatic changes

[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]A boy from a nomadic family leans on a rug in 2010 near Ili, Xinjiang.
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[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]18 photos: [size=1.06667]Photographer chronicles China's dramatic changes

[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]Security guards in Beijing hold five rings to make the Olympic symbol. Beijing hosted the Summer Olympics in 2008.
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[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]18 photos: [size=1.06667]Photographer chronicles China's dramatic changes

[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]A garbage disposal plant Changping, Beijing.
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[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]18 photos: [size=1.06667]Photographer chronicles China's dramatic changes

[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]A boy draws in the National Art Museum of China, Beijing 2012.
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[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]18 photos: [size=1.06667]Photographer chronicles China's dramatic changes

[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]Wang Wenlan is one of China's top photojournalists and has been taking photos for five decades.
[size=0.8]Hide Caption
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[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]18 photos: [size=1.06667]Photographer chronicles China's dramatic changes

[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]Cyclists pedal on Guangxin Road, Shanghai in 1991. Wang Wenlan's most famous series of photographs of bicycles tracks China's relationship with the bicycle -- the most common means of transport in the 1980s and early 1990s.
[size=0.8]Hide Caption
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[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]18 photos: [size=1.06667]Photographer chronicles China's dramatic changes

[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]A family travels by bike in Guangxi, 1988. The bicycle once was a family's most precious asset.
[size=0.8]Hide Caption
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[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]18 photos: [size=1.06667]Photographer chronicles China's dramatic changes

[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]Bicycles were gradually replaced by motors and cars and have now almost vanished from the streets in China.
[size=0.8]Hide Caption
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[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]18 photos: [size=1.06667]Photographer chronicles China's dramatic changes

[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]A groom carries his bride through a field in Baishan, Jilin province in 2007 as an old man looks on. Wang's work often reveals the clashes between tradition and modernity in China.
[size=0.8]Hide Caption
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[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]18 photos: [size=1.06667]Photographer chronicles China's dramatic changes

[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]Wang has also covered most major news events in China of the past four decades. Here, people gather in Tiananmen Square in Beijing in an unprompted outpouring of grief for late Premier Zhou Enlai in 1976. He took the photos secretly and they weren't published until the 1980s.
[size=0.8]Hide Caption
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[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]18 photos: [size=1.06667]Photographer chronicles China's dramatic changes

[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]Men with shovels run to the rescue in the aftermath of the massive Tangshan earthquake in 1976. The photo was published a decade later.
[size=0.8]Hide Caption
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[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]18 photos: [size=1.06667]Photographer chronicles China's dramatic changes

[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]People gather in Beijing to celebrate the downfall of the Gang of Four. The gang's leading figure was Mao's Zedong's last wife Jiang Qing and they were blamed by the government for the worst excesses of the Cultural Revolution.
[size=0.8]Hide Caption
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[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]18 photos: [size=1.06667]Photographer chronicles China's dramatic changes

[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]Aviator sunglasses were must-have items among the young and hip in the early 1980s. They became popular after U.S. TV series "The Man from Atlantis" was shown in China.
[size=0.8]Hide Caption
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[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]18 photos: [size=1.06667]Photographer chronicles China's dramatic changes

[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]A man carries a load of stones on his back on the Great Wall in 1984. China restored the Great Wall at Badaling in 1984, making it more accessible. It's one of the most popular tourist sites in Beijing.
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[size=1.2]More wiggle room?
[size=1.2]Polumbaum says that Chinese photographers do operate under fewer constraints than their reporter counterparts, and have more wiggle room to tackle sensitive subjects -- at least in their free time.


[size=1.06667][size=1.06667]Photographer documents possessions of Chinese families


[size=1.2]The Internet and photo books have become important platforms for photojournalists to pursue edgier work.
[size=1.2]"There are far fewer explicit boundaries on book content than on day-to-day press coverage," says Polumbaum.
[size=1.2]"Thus, even daily news photographers who are expected to turn out certain types of photos can pursue more critical parallel projects that see publication in books.
[size=1.2]"The whole issue of censorship is widely misunderstood abroad, as it is much more subtle than commonly thought, and there are many ways around it."
[size=1.2]The photographers shortlisted by the Sony World Photography Awards tackle a variety of subject matter.
[size=1.2]Fan Li, an associate professor of Shaanxi Normal University's School of Journalism and Communications, focuses on ethnic minority Tajiks living in China's far western province of Xinjiang; Beijing-based Li Feng, a staff photographer for Getty Images, examines the lives of monkeys bred for animal testing; while photographer Zhe Zhu traced the origins of the Yangtze River.
[size=1.2]Chinese newspapers typically feature pictures of leaders and officials rather than ordinary people or striking images of the day's top story. One widely shared People's Daily newspaper from December had 10 pictures of President Xi.

[size=1.06667]The December 4, 2015 front page of the People's Daily had 10 photos of Xi Jinping




[size=1.2]Greater access, awareness
[size=1.2]Cheap, easy-to-use digital cameras have made the craft more accessible to amateurs and photography as an art form is also finding an audience in China.
[size=1.2]In 2014, more than 25,000 people attended the inauguralPhoto Shanghai, the first international art fair dedicated to Asian photography.
[size=1.2]"People enjoy photography; they digest it daily. You don't need a course in art history to understand it," said Scott Grey, CEO of the World Photography Organization.
[size=1.2]Some of the world's best (and strangest) photographs go on sale
[size=1.2]Zhang, the winner of the 2016 World Press Award, sees his win as a sign of increasing recognition for Chinese photographers.
[size=1.2]"First of all, Chinese photographers have been improving technically, and more and more are meeting international quality and standards," Zhang told the Global Times.
[size=1.2]No soft focus
[size=1.2]But the international curiosity about China holds a downside, according to Polumbaum.
[size=1.2]"The photographers from China grabbing attention first -- and continuing to get the most attention abroad --- are those who depict some of the grimmest dimensions of Chinese society in the most extreme terms, particularly the 'dark' side of economic development in the form of ecological disaster," she says.
[size=1.2]Meet China's 'Annie Leibovitz'
[size=1.2]"This certainly is a crucial subject, but it's not the only aspect of Chinese life."



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