| Photography as an important artistic medium witnessed the changing Chinese cities, whilethe ever-changing city also offers a wealth of creative content for the Chinese photographers.China’s urban landscape shot from the earliest foreign photographers, as we show in the city100years ago scenery photos, contemporary artists to China’s rich perspective on the city to shoot,they presented various aspects of the city for us, while deepening the people to understand thecity. Especially in the new century, Chinese urban photography in his unique way to witness thechanges of Chinese cities.By the author of three chapters to be discussed: Chapter: Study Chinese cities before thesource of a photographic record of the Eastern world-native city Photography by Westernphotographers lens China City2, the times affects the next, this chapter is mainly Chinadevelopment brief urban Photography prior to the late1980s. And according to the differentperiods start on. The second chapter discusses the Chinese city in the new era of photographybackground, especially the development of China’s urban photography since the late1990s. Firstto Section I: expansion of urbanization and its impact to explain the background of contemporaryChinese urban.Section II: The sense of consciousness-China "urban photography" generation,mainly discussed in the late1980s, China’s emergence and development of urban photography.Section III: diverse expression of individual experience-since the late1990s, Chinese urbanphotography and IV: flash under the dark side of the city-with photographic exhibitions, forexample, two sections mainly through the mid-1990s late to capture Beijing, Shanghai andGuangzhou, the three metropolitan-based photographers and representatives of the city’s majorexhibitions related to commence development discourse of contemporary urban photography.And in the fourth chapter, urban photography-as the "I" as a way to tell, summarizes some ofthe characteristics of contemporary urban photography, is a combination of my last articlephotography On contact with the modern urban living experience of photography and visualexperience. |
