A Study On "Central Plains Photographic Groups" Represented By

Henan is located in central China, is the most important one of the cradles of the Chinese nation, is the most Chinese cultural characteristics and customs of agricultural province. Yellow across the Loess Plateau, relying on sediment, over Sanmenxia momentum down, where siltation has created the most suitable land for farming, but they often make people burst diverted heavy disaster. In the Yellow River rivalry in Henan in central China has become the economic center of the ancient East Asian agriculture, the development of the most sophisticated oriental farming culture. In such a long history, culture and Broad realistic background, when photography became a way of seeing when the photographer’s eyes fell on the very nature of this massive land.After the 1980s, as people gradually awakening of consciousness, history culture and cultural heritage Central Plains, Central Plains culture with the vitality of the special geographical environment of the Central Plains region and the Central Plains millions of peasants living conditions, etc. to people of this land in the literature, drama, art, dance and other art forms of creation have brought inspiration and subject matter, everyone in that all aspects are scarce’s also looking for a way to release. Their local community, the nation has become a cultural aspirations photographers heart desires, but because the special’s lack of education makes their inner spiritual poverty, and they do not lead to the accumulation of sufficient literacy to use literature, drama, art, dance and other artistic means to express their inner thoughts, they choose the most familiar "working tool"-the camera, the "work" to "creation" through the lens to observe and realized, hungry heart spiritual education under a little bit of padding is missing. They chose to use a camera to record the lens focused on this piece of land in people’s living condition and lifestyle. And in the shooting of a way to start a long-term focus groups and cultural status of an area, forming a systematic form of visual language. With Yu Deshui as the representative for "Zhongyuan photography group" photographers who work exudes a strong local feeling, because their emotional and spiritual land already and at the foot of the yellow blend together, setting in among their works as in Yu Deshui’s "Yellow fleeting", "Central Plains earth," Jiang Jian’s "master", Zhao Zhenhai’s "picking on coal waste dump people," Yan Xinfa’s "the Red Army personnel Diaspora", and so on. The images on the Central Plains farmers and their life is almost the ratings of different identities, different people in different circumstances and state, they used pure way of recording people in Henan this massive land and this land on the show in our before.For the Yu Deshui and the "Zhongyuan photography group" comprehensive study, we can see that the Central Plains profound historical and cultural heritage, special geographical location, affecting people’s lives and living conditions of the photographer, we see a stage, the evolution of the regional body language, photography, observation and results are observed, humane care of the responsibility of torture, reality and history of relations. Ultimately concluded that "Central photography group," the photographer who express a strong native heart, the desire of the nation’s cultural aspirations of the camera and let them choose this tool, through photography to record the carrier, with their thick piece of video to show the Central Plains land. At the same time, they break through the photography of the "aesthetic of the Wind", to choose pure record, this is a return to the body language of photography that photography is not art but a mere record, which is rich and full of Chinese documentary photography.