历史中的风景——论中国风景摄影

A Landscape in History——On the Landscape Photography in China

在中国,风光摄影可说是一个带引号的特定词汇。因为它实在与带有自然客观的风景摄影有着完全不同的意义。这个词汇中所承载的文化内容和社会内容过于冗杂,像一团剪不断、理还乱的历史迷团,深刻地纠缠在我们的现代视觉历史和当代文化生活之中。百年多来的中国风光摄影,见证了国人和自然的关系,也折射出政治、经济时代和摄影师们的文化心路历程。

The term “landscape photography” has its own special implications in China because it is entirely different from the representational natural scenery photography that we would normally expect it to be. The cultural and social implications of this term are so complex that they are deeply intertwined and entangled with our modern visual history and contemporary cultural lives. For over a hundred years, China’s landscape photography has witnessed the relationship between nature and Chinese people, and reflected the spiritual voyages of photographers in different political and economic settings.