Today's girls are too fashionable and too muddy; today's photography is too manipulative and too artistic. There are no more clear girls, and the era of purity has long ended.
Japanese photo master Kishin Shinoyama, whose most well-known works are a series of photos of celebrities, girls, and human bodies, and the most famous are the photo albums of Higuchi Konanko and Miyazawa Rie. Higuchi Konanko, shot by Kishin Shinoyama in 1991, was the beginning of the lifting of the ban on nude photos, and it also influenced body photography in Europe and the United States. In the same year, Rie Miyazawa's nude photo album "Santa Fe" was published. This work was filmed in Santa Fe, the capital of New Mexico, USA, hence the name. Exotic, Sunshine Nude, Perfect Light and Shadow, it became a phenomenal bestseller as soon as it was released, and eventually sold 1.55 million copies, creating a miracle in the history of Japanese photography.
Born in Tokyo's Shinjuku Enshoji Temple, Shinoyama Kishin, who lived in the temple before high school, understands the religious simplicity of photography very well, but he also says that he is taking pictures according to his biological instinct, his vanity and his liking for people. He praised him for taking pictures, and he took pictures of the fireworks and thousands of flowers in the world with the purity of his heart. In the dialogue with Nakahei Takuma, Nakahei compared Nobu Shinoyama to Eugene Atget and Walker Evans, and believed that his photography does not try to construct things, but the world he takes is what he sees, A world that does not impose any meaning. And Kishin Shinoyama said that photography is "not much to say, not too much to say". This principle is quite subtle and needs to be carefully understood.
It is not easy to understand Xiaoshan Kishin's photography, because it is an ingenious balance between art and business, there is no vulgarity, and there is no unattainable art, and it upholds the pure "between art and business". Neutral", which is difficult to grasp. This is not to say that his photography is half commercial and half artistic, both commercial and artistic (the aesthetics of most commercial photography and art training institutions are like this), but his photographic language has a thorough understanding of human nature, color is emptiness, emptiness That is color, there are mysteries everywhere, but it is as simple as drinking tea and drinking water.
"Santa Fe" this classic artistry is worth talking about. The first is the perfect use of light and shadow, which is intertwined with the beauty of the oriental girl's body, making it look spotless.Immaculate. This is completely different from Western body photography derived from ancient Greek aesthetics: Edward Weston's body is abstract, Helmut Newton's body is erotic and voyeuristic, Lucien Craig's body is romantic The turbulent, they emphasize the fitness of the human body, the abstract geometric lines, the ultimate eroticism, or the extreme eroticism; while "Santa Fe" is oriental, simple, current, sunny, without a trace of abstraction or distraction. . This is amazing.
Secondly, this photo album can best witness the "neutral" photography style of Nobuyoshi Shinoyama. Even if he shoots naked women, he doesn't highlight anything. There is no loneliness like Moriyama's loneliness, and Nobuyoshi Araki's wanton debauchery. , without the fashion, fashion sense of the human body like Owen Payne and Richard Everton. The so-called neutral may be an ancient pond, a frog jumped into a sound, so I smell, so I see. Specifically, it can be said that it is the neutrality of the subject, the neutrality of light and shadow, the neutrality of color, and the neutrality of the depth of thought: let the subject to be photographed naturally blend into the world, the language of light and shadow is not traced, and the tone is not It is not suppressed, neither deep nor shallow, just like the colors we see with our eyes, and we do not deliberately convey a certain spiritual concept. The surface of the photographic language is the concept, and the surface is the depth. The picture is rich and simple. From the shallow, the deep from the deep, this is the most superb and wonderful thing about Kishin Shinoyama's photography.
Finally, and an impressive point, this photo album adopts vertical composition. The vertical composition highlights the beauty of oriental girls, rather than reluctantly explaining the environment, which is very bold and novel.
In short, because of the uniqueness of "Santa Fe" in art, coupled with the commercial hotspot of fully nude appearances, the great controversy of "Lu Mao" has finally become a landmark photo masterpiece.
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