Subtraction, in my opinion, is the expression of emotion left behind by the photographer with the camera, the lonely inner monologue of the world of human feelings, the moment of time and space, after eliminating all the superfluous components. If you say do? Subtracting?
Born in Shanghai in 1933, He Fan was the only son of a wealthy businessman, and in 1941, because of the war, his parents were stranded in Macao on a business trip, and at the age of ten, He Fan grew up under the care of his domestic helper. In order to escape his fear and loneliness, He Fan frequented the movie theater at the end of Nanjing Road, while recording the scenes around him with a small Kodak Brownie camera left behind by his father. In the midst of the turbulent state of affairs, the teenager He Fan was? Boredom? inadvertently became a source of artistic creativity, and this period was the starting point of his photography. The humanistic concern and poetic temperament of photography at this time, mixed with the artist's nostalgia, continued in the street photography of He Fan's Hong Kong period, and became the most personalized imprint of this photographic poet in his images.
Mr. Ho's work is both documentary and creative, and in the 1950s and 1960s he produced a large number of photographs reflecting the life of Hong Kong's towns and villages, whose geometric aesthetics and classical oriental aesthetics won him more than 280 photographic awards around the world. From 1958 to 1965, his photographs won eight consecutive awards from the Photographic Society of America. From 1958 to 1965, his photographs won eight consecutive awards from the Photographic Society of America (PSA) as one of the World's Top Ten Photographers. From 1958 to 1965, his photographs won eight consecutive World Photography Ten Awards organized by the Photographic Society of America, and in 1958, he topped the list.
Ho and his Rolleiflex f3.5 twin-lens reflex camera
Ho said that he was always waiting for the light and the view. He has been waiting for light to intertwine with the landscape and then let the magic come out of his camera, it is as simple as that.? Mr. Ho's work is impeccable in terms of light and shadow or composition or the subject matter itself.
He captures various bits of Hong Kong's cityscape with his camera. In the fifties and sixties, small citizens outside the Kowloon Walled City were picking firewood to cook their meals, market vendors were selling bean curd, a father and son were eating at a street food stall, and a suitemate was having dim sum at a cafeteria Each photo brings the past life of Hong Kong to life in front of your eyes.
1959 Afternoon Chat
1963 Joyful Meeting
1960 Twilight Return
1957 Life as a Play
1959 Sun rays
1958 Different Directions
1960 Private Space Private
1955 Back Alley
1957 A Sail
1954 Near the Shadows? The only posed shot in his oeuvre
1955 Sundowner
Sundowner
Sundowner
Ho Fan is his best-known photograph. Waves come in from the edge of the photo and keep lapping at the shore. A man rides a tricycle alone, and the scene is one of solitude, surrounded by solemnity as the sun sets. He once confessed: ? If I were to be famous for only one work, I would want it to be this one.
This work was taken in the Western District of Hong Kong Island. I was studying Chinese at the time, and one of the poems made a huge impression on me. I wanted to find a place that gave me the same feeling as the poem. The mood, the atmosphere and the main elements? All of them had to express the emotion in the poem. When I found such a place, I went there for days. The tricycles, the people walking home, the silence that remains after the waves have lapped the embankment, the light pressed down? For me, that defining moment was just so startling. To this day, the scene from half a century ago is still vivid in my mind. He Fan does not hide his deep affection for the work.In Ho's view, the "decisive moment? The Decision Moment The test of judgment is not only skill, but also the use of heart, mind, eyes and hands to capture touching moments. He Fan's approach is similar to that of the master photographer Bresson. Decision Moment? so similar to Bresson that he is known as the "Bresson of the East". Oriental Bresson?
Susan Sontag, in his book On Photography, wrote a book about photography. Sontag said in On Photography, ? The photographer is a prepared solo traveler who roams the city, weaving in and out of the extremes of the city's heavenly and hellish landscapes with admiration and sympathy, and in the eyes of the urban wanderer, the world is always "picturesque". He Fan is the poet with a camera in his hand. The poet with a camera in his hand.
Doing? Subtract? The moment of decision?