LONG (Chin-san).
Lang Jing Shan - Photographic Works of Chin-San Long.
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“This collection represents a combined compilation of my previous works that have appeared in various publications in the past. But it does not include those of my works whose negatives are left behind on the Chinese mainland, nor those whose prints are no longer extant.” (Foreword).
Long Chin-san (also Lang Jing-shan, 1892-1995) was a pioneering photographer and one of the first Chinese photo-journalists. He has been called “indisputably the most prominent figure in the history of Chinese art photography”, and the “Father of Asian Photography”. He joined the Royal Photographic Society in 1937 and gained a Fellowship in 1942. He was one of the first Chinese photographer to take artistic nude shots, but became most famous for his misty landscapes where he tries to fuse the aesthetics of Chinese monochrome landscape paintings with pictorialist photography. To achieve the unique spatial concepts of a ink paintings he invented a method of “composite photography” to great effect. After the Communist takeover Long moved to Taiwan (1949) where he became director of the Photographic Society of China. Rare.
