He was once talked about because of a photo album with the poet's index finger as the cover.
He said that he had caught all the best monsters in China, that's enough.
After seeing the photos he took for himself, his friend, the poet Bai Hua, said, "You shouldn't take photos of a person easily, because whoever you take must be the best photo of that person in my life".
He is called "the best portrait photographer in China"
His name is Xiao Quan.
He has photographed many famous people in the fields of literature, art, music, film and so on in the 198s and 199s, such as Bei Dao, Jia Pingwa, Chen Danqing, Shi Tiesheng, Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Jiang Wen, Dou Wei and Tan Dun. Every photo of him has a story told through his lens.
But in his eyes, there are no celebrities, only friends, only fate.
Xiao Quan and the dancer Yang li Ping have been friends for many years. The peacock in his shot is quite different from her in the eyes of the world.
He said that he has filmed Yang li Ping for more than ten years, and he will continue filming. Even though she has become an old lady, she is still Yang li Ping, basking in the sun in Dali.
Some people say that when Sanmao needed a photographer, God sent Xiao Quan to her side. San Mao in Xiao Quan's lens is careless, and there is a free and easy nature in his bones between his gestures. He became friends with Sanmao because Sanmao took this set of photos, and this set of photos became the last brilliance of Sanmao before his death.
After Sanmao committed suicide, Xiao Quan regretted not being able to attend her funeral. His wife comforted him: "Sanmao has no funeral, only a birthday."
In the early 199s, Xiao Quan met Veronica, Cultural Counselor of the French Consulate in Guangzhou. She asked Xiao Quan, do you know marc riboud? He will come to China soon and wants to find an English-speaking photographer as an assistant.
There should be no photographer in that era who didn't know marc riboud.
marc riboud is a world-class photographer, the former chairman of Magnum Photo Agency, and a French national treasure war photographer. His photography career has lasted for 7 years. He has been to many countries in his life, photographed the corners of human society and the changes of local people's lives with the eyes of onlookers, and presented the most real life in his works.
This is his first masterpiece, which was shot on the Eiffel Tower. With this work, he won the qualification to enter magnum photos.
During the 2 years from 1993 to 213, Xiao Quan and Mark recorded the changes of an era in China with their cameras.
In p>1995, Mark was invited by the French investor of Zhang Yimou's movie "Shake, Shake, Shake to the Waipoqiao" to take photos. Zhang Yimou has also become the most important model of Mark. He is very interested in this China man wearing a military coat, and he has spent a lot of film for him. Gong Li, who is waiting on the sidelines, is obviously very curious about Mark's shooting.
In Shanghai, when they have time, they will go to the alley. Every time I meet those children in the alley, Mark will become an "old child" who loves to laugh. All kinds of drinks were sold in the canteen in Lane, and the children were wearing the most popular jackets at that time ... Yes, Shanghai was the most fashionable city in China at that time.
In p>1996, marc riboud tirelessly walked through Tiananmen Square and Qianmen Street in Beijing and took many photos. In the same year, marc riboud held a large-scale solo exhibition entitled "Forty Years of China in marc riboud" at China Art Museum. In this exhibition, Xiao Quan met Catherine, the woman who made marc riboud "start again" for the first time.
On June 24th, 23, on his 8th birthday in Paris, marc riboud received a postcard from China, which read.
"Dedicated to an 8-year-old who is still taking photos. I personally felt how a photographer with a sense of responsibility and full of hope for everything faces life. You make me respect, but it is difficult to follow suit. "
This postcard is from Xiao Quan.
In p>21, marc riboud, who came to Shanghai again, was an 87-year-old man, but still a happy "old child". He held his large retrospective exhibition in Shanghai Art Museum. There was a surprise at the exhibition. In 1971, Mark filmed a young girl in Shanghai Ballet. On the opening day, Ms. Tang Xuejuan, the young girl in Mark's works, came to the exhibition site. This reunion after a lapse of 39 years delighted Mark. He pulled her to the front of his work and took this time-space staggered photo. Let us wonder what time has left behind. What did you take away?
In the summer of p>29, Xiao Quan came to Paris and marc riboud's home. Over the years, years have changed their appearance, but they have never changed their enthusiasm for each other and their love for photography.
In p>213, on the occasion of marc riboud's 9th birthday, Xiao Quan went to Paris again and met Mark at his home, which was the last time Xiao Quan went to see Mark. Even in his own home, it is already very difficult to move Mark, who is about 9 years old. Xiao Quan told him that he had climbed the Eiffel Tower and found the position of painter. Mark listened thoughtfully, but didn't say anything.
Mark witnessed many great events in China. He has a special love for China. In the past 5 years, he has observed, thought, expressed, intervened and presented that mysterious country in the eyes of westerners in his own way.
He once said, "I walked and watched in China and took many photos. I also drank a lot of tea and listened to many lengthy official reports at that time ... Everywhere I went, I saw and loved these beautiful faces, the old patina on the tools, the vastness and some strange landscapes, and there was a dignity everywhere, which replaced the shame of almost the whole nation in the last century. "
We would like to thank this photographer from the West, who spent half a century continuously reporting on China and showing China to the world.