The Application Of Wet Plate Processing In The Creation Of The Characters Of The Twelve Beauties Of Jinling-the Formal List

A dream of Red Mansions,also called The Story of the Stone,is one of the Four Masterpieces of China,which vividly shows the figures of the Twelve Beauties of Jinling.Due to the paintings and TV productions,readers and audiences are familiar with the twelve girls.However,people feel more illusory from paintings on one side,on the other side people feel even more realistic from the character actresses made.Influence from the actresses' personal style make the confusion even worse.So that to show the Twelve Beauties of Jinling by photographing does not mean simply copying these characters,but aimed at showing how the author understanding about these characters.It is the way to make an artistic expression by a real vector.The way that wet plate processing used to make the images more anciently,makes the images even more dignity.The character of a dignified attitude capitalized elements in the images shows a kind of quiet classicalism that wet plate processing expressed.The delicate images,the precious photographic materials,and also the exquisite crafts,which show high artistic value and extremely technological value,make it praised and treasured.In another word,wet plate processing carried the work of Twelve Beauties of Jinling from A Dream of Red Mansions with its extremely high values.Wet plate processing,as an important part from the history of the method in photography,has been developed smoothly since its invention.It has come from the history,stumbling all the way but still shining.In no doubts,the development of wet plate processing is not only a technical innovation of photography,but also an option from the different ways of photographic expression.Even though wet plate processing is not the best solution to the image problems,it could help with in the choices to these questions.