New terrain photography, documentary photography with the new, new color photography, contemporary photography is to understand the United States keywords.
Contemporary photography in the United States there are two Adams, one is the Ansel Adams (Ansel Adams ,1902-1984), the other is Robert Adams (Robert Adams, 1937 -); one is big, the other is big; a shot over the west, another has taken over the west. So the photography Battery Grip historian Ram They made a comparison: two Adams are concerned about the land west of the Mississippi's gallant United States, Ansel Adams, to avoid the road across the land, the new townhouses area, over and over stumps on the slopes, so that they affect the earth's forceful magnificent; and Robert Adams will put these as an important part of the screen to show them the beauty of the earth's destruction. (Naomi Rosenblum: A World History of Photography, p.529, Abbeville Press, 1997).
This comparison not only reveals the face of the earth in the 1960s when the American landscape photographer of the two approaches, but also describes the general was born in that era of "new terrain (New Topographics) photography," the basic features. So what is "new terrain photography"?
Or to Robert Adams, for example. He spent in Denver, Colorado youth in the 1960s to Los Angeles to study for six years, then returned to Denver, he was stunned: the land of suburban hills to cut down a tree stump; hillside and lake built a concrete road , connected from the industrial park, the new town, warehouse-style shopping malls, campgrounds; there appears sewage, garbage, noise and smoke ... he does not understand, these originally appeared in the densely populated Los Angeles suburb of the phenomenon , Why is there in the Rocky Mountain? Aim the lens at his own confusion of things that make a film that is 10 years - now, his critics called the film was "discovered a new west": that the natural scenery in the fierce mountain pass in the interpretation of the Fit, a hero to save the the western United States has been part of history; now the western part of the new town of embellishment in the suburbs, billowing black smoke drifting across the sky, people cut down forests built townhouses and pool, here the joy of spring; Rocky Mountain looks like the U.S. has any industrial city - it is indeed a "new West."
Shooting, Adams did not deal with cheap sentimental theme, but with calmness, a distance of attitude. This "neutral observation" belongs in the 1960s, American photographer of the new things, pay attention to the reader will notice that from this time onwards, people who do not rush the scene, or pedestrian, there is no communication with the camera photographs, and the streets. " stay according to "a lot of photography in the United States. Observed together with a neutral connotation enriched American photography, humor and satire is the official debut in the 1960s, before the fun is in more than a snapshot of where the family members, is now widely accepted by the public style of photography with Nikon D700 Battery Grip, Aye Leo Tee Wit (Elliot Erwitt) and (Burk Uzzle) to fame.
Robert Adams, both with a similar attitude to take, and motive in the shooting, the light treatment, subject selection, the form of interest also similar in the United States a group of photographers, their works were later rounded at the exhibition "New Terrain : man-made changes in landscape photographs "(New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, 1975), the" new terrain photography "on this name. Rosenblum have their comments: "new terrain" in the name of play from the "social landscape" (social landscape) concept, the image is not crisp but nothing in a manner to render the emotion from the artificial industrial objects and contemporary cultural landscape, Robert Adams, Lewis Baer Ci, Luojiemoting (Roger Mertin), Stephen Shore, etc. which are the backbone (see this issue Mr. Jiang Rong's article "Ansel Adams will not beat the scenery "). The subject matter of indifference to the shooting, Lewis Teia Adams went even further, "I have no emotional content is boring to convey information," Baer Ci said, "My job is to use the camera industry, π to describe how something looks like a photograph. " (Naomi Rosenblum: A World History of Photography, p.530)
"The new terrain photography," the climax in the 1980s. These claims are not moving emotional photographer did a few pieces were moving rivers and lakes of the thing, one of which is engaged in a "taking pictures again" (re-photography) photography project. California and Colorado in the work of those photographers, follow the 19th century in the western United States study in Western Europe, two photographers Timothy Sullivan and William Henry Jackson's footsteps, select the same shooting, to visit the West Road re-shot again, in order to compare past and present west of the change. This was one method of making a broad impact.
From the foregoing, the "new landscape photography" and landscape photography, landscape, though they are targeted to the ground, but the former is essentially a post-industrial society and the American era of consumerism, is expressed in a seemingly calm and collected in the attitude of the community , while the latter studied under a more pictorial photography, still beauty in mind.
Urbanization in China today comes the climax, there are the world's largest group of landscape photography, although the west is a landscape photographer's favorite, but the result of western development, "new terrain" rarely appear in their screen. In recent years, many young photographers to "stay according to the" form, follow the "society of the spectacle" theory of mass production, "Landscape Photography", the image looks like the "new terrain" to enrich the content of contemporary Chinese photography, but often lack a kinds of understanding sympathy: those with advanced sexual attitudes uncoordinated landscape of contemporary, often present in China's underdeveloped areas, where people aspire to the lifestyle, no money, have not seen many aspects of society, so they created the landscape bread for those in large cities are feeling very Eupolyphaga photographers with Nikon D300 Battery Grip.
Over the past 10 years, the Sturm und Drang of the urbanization process in China has greatly changed the natural geography and urban and rural areas; another 10 years, this process will be coming to an end, the "new terrain" manufacturing campaign will come to an end. "For photos of the Castle to stay late, devastated mountains and rivers sigh," Will the Chinese photographers a deep understanding of social change, to retain the present "new terrain" era?
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