Thinking "South Lang North Zhang," He Said

Twenty or thirty of China is the unrest, rare in the history of civil strife, the enemy invasion, ethnic conflicts, the people are destitute. With the outbreak of Anti-Japanese War, the Chinese nation to the moment of vital importance. Based on this background, the Chinese intellectuals and patriots tried to set off a series of saved the movement and thoughts of survival. Impact on the progress and trend, China photography development has entered a " contention and bloom of all schools of thoughts ", a variety of photographic creation forms have emerged. The so-called " Lang of South and Zhang of North " of Lang Jingshan and Zhang Yinquan in this period creation field occupies the position of play a decisive role. They are the same age, born the same, are very love photography career and made great contributions to the photo. In this context, their photography creation mode and concept is different. Today we cannot judge their choices of photographic creation. in an age when gunfire licked the heavens, and at a critical time when the nation lived in crisis, one chose to keep out of the war and be indifferent to the social reality and national peril, indulging in their landscape creation, the other one is to sacrifice his own photography creation desire, the camera as a weapon to save the nation to join the national revolution, and inspire the enthusiasm of people’s revolution. We should be thinking about the two different attitudes. Photographers can be dedicated to their own creative desire, but the key moment when the nation, we should be discarded, photography is not only reflect the personal aspirations, but also the masses of the people in need, we should not choose to escape attitude, but should play their functions, to promote the development of the country and the nation. This paper is divided into four chapters to discuss their different writing style and concept photography and its reasons, and on two people for a realistic attitude to think, so that argument.