Chinese photographer and American photographer Shan Xiongwei's work "Storm Sand" has won more than 260 world salon photography medals and the title of "Ten World Photographers", which is called "Eastern Adams" by Western photography critics.
Shan Xiongwei was born in Zengcheng, Guangdong Province, China in 1929, and spent most of his life in Vietnam. As a teenager, Shan Xiongwei worked as an apprentice in a photo studio and later became a freelance landscape photographer, traveling around the country. In 1979, the 50-year-old single hero arrived in California by boat and created in a small darkroom in Chinatown, San Francisco. Settled in the United States, he still insisted on returning to China every few years to shoot. Shan Xiongwei's works were not accepted by American photography circles at first, and only after winning many awards internationally did they regain their importance. Since then, there has been a steady stream of visitors, who have been busy making photographs for collectors from all over the world. In 2004, Monroe died of a heart attack.
Shan Xiongwei has his own unique creative method. With his exquisite darkroom technology, he created photographic works like traditional Chinese landscape paintings. This combination of Eastern and Western art may have originated in Hong Kong in the 1940s. One of its most famous pioneers was the photographer Lang Jingshan, who was once a master of photography. This method requires the synthesis of multiple negatives. The purpose of his creation is not to pursue the authenticity of the scene, but to pay more attention to artistic conception and aesthetic feeling. It is said that in front of Adams, Shan Xiongwei spent two hours creating a picture of the moon, which made the latter admire him.
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Shan Xiongwei is one of the last generation of photographers to inherit this creative style, and also the most outstanding one.
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