三峡社会变迁与纪实摄影流变——兼论60年影像书写中国历史的创新突破

Changes of Social Life in Three Gorges Area and Its Documentary Photography

因为三峡工程的兴建,长江三峡流域发生了翻天覆地的社会与自然变化,众多中国摄影人投入到三峡题材的纪实摄影实践中。中国三峡纪实摄影成为地域性纪实摄影研究的一个范本,也是研究中国纪实摄影60年的一个生动标本。本文首先梳理了自摄影术诞生以来目前我们所能看到的三峡影像,并切入60年来三峡纪实摄影的发展、变化与演进的脉络,进一步探讨作为记录的摄影对于当下中国急剧变化的社会现实的功能和作用,研究新的历史条件下中国纪实摄影创新、发展与突破的途径。

As a result of construction of the Three Gorges Project,great natural and social changes have taken place in the Three Gorges area and have been recorded with great volumes of documentary photographs,which present a sample of regional documentary photography as well as the development of documentary photography of China in the past 60 years.This article,with an exhibition of all the existing photos related to the Three Gorges,makes an analysis of the development,changes and evolution of the documentary photographs in the past 60 years and probes the function of photography as a historical recording device in context of rapid social progress and the approaches to innovation,further development and breakthrough of the documentary photography of China in the new era.