自私·走神——中国新生代摄影联展
Selfhood·Absent Minded——The joint exhibition of the new generation photographers in China
自·私
曾翰 / 策展人Selfhood
By Zeng Han/Curator
“在中国，拍摄照片总是一种仪式，它总要包括摆好姿势而且还必须要征得同意。”苏珊·桑塔格（Susan Sontag）在《论摄影》（On Photography），曾这样描述中国人的摄影观。让拍摄照片成为仪式，不仅仅是普通人的拍照行为，媒体摄影也好，时尚摄影也好，沙龙摄影也好，就连在当代艺术中的摄影，在中国似乎都是为某种目的而存在的仪式化工具，况且普通人的拍照行为还不能称之为摄影，只能叫拍照。
当然，摄影仪式论是苏珊·桑塔格所看到的30年前的中国所得出的论调，从上世纪90年代末开始，中国年轻一代的摄影者似乎一握上相机这武器，就处心积虑地想砸碎那些所谓的仪式，而且还要进一步地打破摄影的“阶级歧视”，企图将摄影这一专业人士用于炫耀的“特权”，解放成任何普通人都能掌握的表达权力。“自·私”这个联展的命名，就是取自于这些新生代摄影者对待摄影的态度——自我表达，私人体验，个性语言，甚至是隐私的、自闭的、窥视的影像。像戴牟雨、姚松鑫、杨长虹、苏焊光（Alex）和白川，他们都是以摄影为职业的媒体摄影师和商业摄影师，但是在他们看来，摄影除了是一种谋生的工具，更是一种生活方式和生活必需品，他们除了制造大量流通于市场的摄影产品，但同时也为自己存留了更多的私家珍藏的“非卖品”；而在林志鹏（编号223）、宋涛和季炜煜（鸟头小组）、刘一青（青头一）这样的年轻创作人那里，摄影则是最得心应手的创作方式，他们用摄影无微不至地扫描与自己最密切相关的生活和人群以及自己，将现实生存演绎成独特自我的影像世界，而且毫不在意地消解了所谓纪实与虚构的界限。
可以说，上述的新生代摄影者在进行的所有的影像探索，几乎都是自发的，而不是为了迎合某种游戏规则。他们的摄影在最初只与自己有关，就像他们中很多人在摄影中的独特署名，只是以摄影的方式描述自己的个体存在，验证自己的个体价值。但在摄影工具日趋普及，摄影成本迅速降低，传播渠道日益畅通多元的今天，摄影也变成了一种个体传媒和社交方式，“自·私”摄影已经成为年轻人的同好和共识，也正在成为当下中国一种日益盛行的年轻人亚文化。也许南·戈尔丁（Nan Goldin）和荒木经惟（Araki Nobuyoshi）等所掀起的“私摄影”大潮对这些中国的年轻人有着潜移默化的影响，但他们所处的时代和环境却决定了他们不同以往的摄影特质，尤其是摄影这种年轻的艺术它本该就有这样年轻的姿态。
在2005年11月首届连州国际摄影年展,这批来自广州和上海的新生代摄影师在“自·私——中国新生代摄影联展”和“走神——上海9人摄影展”中集体亮相，展示出不同于传统摄影的新鲜生猛。本画册中作者作品介绍的配图就是他们在连州的展览现场图片，2005年12月17日，我们将这两个在连州国际摄影年展中获得杰出策展人奖的展览合二为一，搬到广州依云小镇艺术沙龙，让这些有独特展览方式的摄影作品再次产生新的“化学反应”。
Susan Suntag says in her On Photography that for the Chinese, taking photos is a ritual that involves a lot of posing and discussion for approval. It seems that for a long time, all forms of photography can only exist in China as a ritualized instrument, and it is too high-browed for ordinary people.
However, ever since the 1990s, the younger generation of Chinese photographers began to take their cameras as a weapon to destroy the old rituals. The title of this joint exhibition, Selfhood , demonstrates these young people抯 attitude towards photography, namely, self-expression, private experience, individualized language.
For the professional photographers such as Dai MengYu, Yao SongXin, Yang ChangHong, Alex So and Bai Chuan, they depend on photography for a living, but they also make a lot of not-for-sale works in the leisure time. Photography becomes a useful tool to scan and reconstruct the world for those young pioneers including Lin ZhiPeng, Song Tao & Ji WeiYu, and Liu YiQing.
Nov 2005, in lianzhou international photography festival,photographers display their works in selfhood--The joint exhibition of the new generation photographers in China and absent Minded--9 photographers from Shanghai?
走神
施瀚涛/策展人Absent Minded
By Shi Hantao/Curator
本雅明早就说过摄影的本质绝不是一种美感，而更接近于“光学无意识”。而之后人们关于都市摄影的阐述为这一种“光学无意识”的概念与都市生活的片段与凌乱感找到了渊源，从而也为都市中的影像制造者提供了摄影在“光学无意识”的纪录功能之外的观念表达功能的合理性；更进一步的是，这一合理性赋予了本来仅具瞬间意义的摄影以永恒的可能。
然而在这一系列的渊源、合理性与可能性的善意而理性的分析之下，摄影的功能被大大拓宽，以至于发展到今天的现状，摄影出现了被过度使用的嫌疑。从影像创作者来说，技术操控的简便使部分艺术家在“观念在先”的观念指导下，在“形式取胜”的形式营造下，利用摄影做出一些仅仅为了表达观念与卖弄形式的粗糙作品，而难觅影像本身的魅力所在；而从影像的阅读者来说，人们总习惯于将自己在画面中看到的意义强行理解为摄影师的创作初衷，用各种猜忌同样抹杀了影像语言本身所具有的价值。
其实“光学无意识”终究是一种无意识，正如矫健向他的学生们强调的：摄影只是一种获取影像的手段。胶片在其成像的一霎那，它只是一个化学反应或光电耦合过程；摄影师按下快门的瞬间，那也只是一次精神上的条件反射所带来的神经与肌肉系统的一系列反应。在冰冷的化学和物理分析背后，去探寻自己、或摄影师在此条件反射的一霎那，它背后所蕴含着的产生反射的原因，这也许是更真实的创作或者解读影像的方式，而这一真实性正体现为作者对心里感受的刨根问底及其诚实表达。
心理感受与情绪表达常常是偶然的，而这却正与作为“光学无意识”的摄影的偶然性不谋而合；摄影师带着自我游走于城市角落，期待着某次触发的不期而至，而后条件反射式地捕捉着时间的切片，这是一次理性无意识的退避和情绪的自然流露，就像少女幻想时失神的微笑；当然，摄影师情绪中本来所含有的社会因素，最终一样会向读者传递出关于时代的信息与判断。与此相比，利用影像语言对充满理性思考的成熟观念的繁复阐述，其表达的真实性与纯粹性便足可质疑，它更像是一次亢奋的空洞的说教。
在此联展，正是一次关于影像语言与生命经验的真实融合的尝试，同时我们也可以从这些年轻的摄影师的作品中，看到他们以各自独特的影像语言延续着城市与摄影天然的宿命。
摄影自诞生以来直到今天，似乎依然在努力寻找自己的身份，然而她与城市的缘分已经是一种既成的现实了。尤其在现代城市生活的文化消费需求的刺激下，显然它不再甘于作为传统艺术形式发展在今天的变异，它在用崭新的自成一体的语言系统上演自己的发展，成为一种充满着现代性的消费品以及表达工具，而这批新生代摄影师的作品正是在此意义上的一系列有意思的尝试。
Benjamin said that the essence of photography is absolutely not a kind of aesthetic feeling, but is rather close to an Optical Non-consciousness. Subsequent definitions of city photography have found the relationship between such Optic Non-consciousnessand the feeling of segment and disorder of city life, thus providing city photographers with the rationality of notion expression function of photography aside from its recording function of Optic Non-consciousness. In addition, such rationality brings a possibility of permanence for photography which originally only has a transient meaning.
However, with the series of benign and rational analysis of such relationship, rationalities and possibilities, the function of photography is much enlarged, to the extent that photography is suspected to be over-utilized basing on its status quo. For some photographers, under the guidance of Conception First and with the belief of Form Prevail, the convenience of technical manipulation has facilitated them to produce some works which only exist for expression of notions and show-off of their forms, and which have completely lost the inherent charm of photography. And for some photograph viewers, they are accustomed to forcing their own understanding of the images as the original intentions of the photographers, and obliterate the inherent value of the photographic language with their various guesses.
Optic Non-consciousness is after all a kind of unconsciousness, just as Jiao Jian has pointed out for his students, that photography is only a means of acquiring images. The instant of imaging of films is just a part of the chemical reaction or photo-electricity coupling process. And the instant when the photographer presses the shutter is only one of the series of reactions of the nerve and muscle systems brought by a conditioned reflex of spirit. Seeking for the reasons of such reflex at the above-mentioned instant behind the cool chemical and physical analysis maybe is the more genuine way to create or understand the images, which is just embodied by the author to get to the bottom and honestly express his feelings in the mind.
Psychological perceptions and expressions of feelings are often incidental, which just happen to coincide with the casualness of photography as a kind of Optic Non-consciousness. The photographers wander in the corners of city, expecting the drop up of some touching off events, and then capturing the slices of time just like a conditioned reflex. This is an unconscious retreat of nous and a natural expression of feeling, just like the strayed smile of a girl in fantasy. Of course, the social factors that originally in the feelings of photographers will finally transmit to the viewers the information and judgments of the times. As a comparison, the tedious reiteration of mature notions after rational thoughts in the form of image language is rather like an excited and hollow preach, of which the authenticity and purity of expression should rather be doubted.
The group exhibition is just an attempt of real amalgamation of image language with the experience of life. At the same time, we can see from the works of the young photographers of Shanghai the fact that they are continuing the natural foreordination of the city and photography with their own unique image language.
From its birth, photography seems to have been trying to seek for its own identity. However, the lot of photography with city now has become a kind of reality. Especially with the stimulation of cultural consumption of modern city life, photography is obviously not satisfied to be only the variation of a traditional form of art. Photography is making its own development with the brand-new self-integrated language system, to the extent that it has become a modern consumable commodity and expression tool, and the works of the new generation photographers are just a series of meaningful tries in such a meaning.
宋 涛
1979年生于上海
1998年毕业于上海工艺美校，现在工作生活在上海
个展和联展：
2004 轻而易举！上海拼图2000－2004艺术展，国立当代美术馆，奥斯
陆，挪威
2003 聚焦：来自Haudenschild收藏机构的中国当代录像和摄影，美国圣
地亚哥州立大学与艺术馆，中国上海美术馆
2003 一种格式，上海比翼艺术中心（个展）
2003 有内容的地板，上海香格纳画廊（个展）中国极多主义，世纪坛
艺术馆，北京
2000 不合作方式，上海东廊画廊
2001 Homeport，上海复兴公园
2001 四万九千三百六十八平方毫米，上海比翼艺术中心（个展）
Song Tao
1979 Born in Shanghai
1998 Graduated Shanghai School of Arts and Crafts
Lives and works in Shanghai Group Exhibitions:
2005 Song Tao: One Day, Shanghart Gallery, Shanghai
Guangzhou Photo Biennial 2005, Guangdong Mu
seum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2005 Shanghai Constructions, Shanghai Gallery of Art,
Shanghai, China
2005 shanghai surprise, lothringer dreizehn,
Munchen, Germany
2004 Light as Fuck! Shanghai Assemblage 2000-2004,
The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo,
Norway
2003 Solo Exhibition of Song Tao - The Floor
"Life is wonderful", ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai
2003 A Kind of Format, BizArt Art Center,
Shanghai, China (solo show)
2003 Chinese Contemporary Photography from the
Haudenschild Collection, San Diego State University
& San Diego Museum of Art，Shanghai Art Museum,
China
2003 'Chinese Maximalism',
Millennium Art Museum, Beijing
2001 Solo Exhibition of Song Tao, -- 49368mm(2),
Bizart, Shanghai
2001 Homeport, Bizart, Shanghai
季炜煜
1980 生于上海
2000 毕业于上海工艺美校
现工作生活在上海
Ji Weiyu
1980 Born in Shanghai
2000 Graduated from Shanghai School of Arts and Crafts
Lives and works in Shanghai
刘一青
1982年生于中国上海
写真艺术家＼虚言症患者＼畅销谎言家＼无聊缔造者＼艺术流水线＼大娱乐＼风格论者
当过平面设计师，编辑，插画家，网站设计师，壁画涂鸦，角色设定，酒吧招待，策划，自由撰稿人，soho工作者，隐藏青年
“少鲜队”文娱团体成员＼“象”摄影期刊成员
Liu Yiqing
1982 Born in Shanghai
2004 Our Eyes Photography
2004 Completely Naked （London）
2004 toycamera.com in China
2005 6th International San Francisco Photography
Art Exposition
2005 Olive Hyde Art Gallery
《CREATIONS》
白川
1995年，成都大学毕业。1999－2002年 在北京从事广告摄影工作；2002至今在广州从事摄影工作，为《香港风情》、《时尚》、《玛丽嘉儿》等多家媒体工作。2005开办白川摄影设计工作室。个人作品曾在《中国摄影》、《人像摄影》、《摄影之友》、《大众摄影》等专业杂志发表。
Bai Chuan
Graduated from Chengdu University in 1995. From 1999 to 2002, he worked on advertising photography in Beijing. From 2002 to present, he works in the fashion industry for Marie Claire、Hong Kong features. In 2005, he established his Photography Design Studio.
戴牟雨
生于广东，1995年毕业于广州美院附中，1999年毕业于广州美院装饰艺术系。2000年茂名，边沿状态艺术展；2002年茂名，视觉实验艺术展；2003年看不见的城市摄影展，上海；女性、城市摄影展，上海；2005年广州，广州国际摄影双年展；上海，顶层画廊上，海时尚摄影展；上海，苏河现代艺术馆，“两三点”个展。
Dai Mou Yu
Born in Guang Dong. He graduated from Guangzhou Fine Arts Institute in 1999. His main exhibitions are ‘Wu Yi Shan International Photo week' 2004, Fu Jian; ‘Guangzhou International Photography Biennale' 2005, Guangzhou; ‘On the Top Floor Gallery' Hai Fashion Photography Exhibition, 2005.
苏焊光
中国广州网络杂志COLDTEA的创办者及N-G影像触进社创始人，同时也是一位活跃于网络和时尚传媒的摄 影师。苏焊光是典型的城市漫游者，随时随地把镜头对准周边的世界。COLDTEA用手机所呈现的鲜活街头影像以及充满活力的亚文化生活，为人们观察急剧转变中的大城市的 另类生态提供了异常丰富的视角。
Alex So
A photographer who moves in the network and fashion field. He is a founder of “COLDTEA” and “N-G Image Agency .
林志鹏
男,中国广州。杂志编辑。有视觉癖、影像癖、杂志癖、设计癖、音乐癖、漫画癖、写字癖、泡网癖、行走癖和各种稀奇古怪癖。学生年代曾组办过漫画同人志，六年后疏于打理任其灭亡。2004年与友人组办N-G Organization，提倡Snap Shot精神力量，集合Snap shot玩家，不定期举办展览、放片会、拍摄、派对、比赛等等。每天发一个白日梦，每段时间亦发一个鸡蛋梦，抱大无畏小精神做爱做的事。个人博客：http://finger_blue.blogone.net
Lin Zhi Peng
Lives and works in Guangzhou. An editor of a magazine. During his school days, he founded a caricature club. In 2004, he founded N-G Organization with good friends. He advocates the spirit of ‘ Snap Shot'.
姚松鑫
1977年生于广东汕头。现居住和工作于上海展览情况：2001年8月，《夜上海》系列作品参展第一届“一品中国摄影节”（山东东营）；2002年5月，参加韩国“生活在都市——亚洲摄影双年展”； 2002年9月，上海“原点”画廊——《都市与人》联展；2003年6月，上海“海上山”画廊——《夜的眼》个人摄影展；2003年8月，上海中信泰富广场《都市·女人·片段》联展之“私空间”系列；2005年1月，2005广州国际摄影双年展。
Yao Song Xin
1977 Born In Shantou,Guangdong. Sole Exhibitions is 2003, “The eye of night,”HaiShangShan Gallery, Shanghai; Group Exhibition are 2001 The Distorted City, Dongyin Hotel, Dongyin,Shandong ; 2002 Living in a City,2002 ASIA PHOTO BIENNALE, Seoul, Korea 2002 City Images, Origin Gallery, Shanghai; The women and the city, Citic Square, Shanghai; 2005 2005GUANGZHOU PHOTO BIENNALE, Guangzhou.
杨长虹
1979年出生于贵州安顺。2000年12月至2004年2月南方都市报任摄影记者；2004年 2 月至2005年4月深圳晶报任摄影记者；2005年 5 月至今任南方都市报任摄影记者；作品参加2004年10月国际平遥摄影节、深圳人文5460展览。
Yang Chang Hong
Born in Guizhou in 1979. He is photojournalist in Southern City Daily.His works participated 2004 Ping Yao International Festival and Shenzhen 5460 Exhibition.
马 良
1995年毕业于上海大学 美术学院
目前生活和工作在上海
1999 年在上海和北京设立自己的工作室
2004 年被中国广告导报评为中国最具影响力的广告导演之一
2004 开始摄影创作
2005 个人摄影展 新加坡esplanade国立艺术中心
2005 “造影”摄影4人展 上海先进艺术中心
2005 大声展 深圳/上海/北京
2005 第六届旧金山国际摄影艺术博览会 美国
2005 中国摄影师作品展 旧金山Olive Hyd画廊
Ma Liang
1995 Graduated from Fine Art College of
Shanghai University, Living and working in Shanghai
1999 Established the studio YES video shop in SH & BJ
2004 Appraised to be one of the best commercial video
directors by China Advertising Pointer Magazine
2004 Began creation in photography.
2005 Solo exhibition, Esplanade gallery, Singapore
2005 Shadow Maker, Advanced Art Center, Shanghai
2005 Get it louder, Shenzhen/Shanghai/Beijing
2005 The 6th San Francisco International Photography
Art Exposition, U.S.A
2005 CREATION, Olive Hyde gallery, San Francisco
缪佳欣
1976 生于上海
1999 毕业于上海师范大学
生活于上海，自由职业
2003 摄影个展《On the way to Johna's》 原点画廊 上海
2005 起从事艺术创作
Miao Jiaxin
1976 born in Shanghai
1999 graduated from Shanghai Normal University
Currently lives in Shanghai. Freelancer
2003 Solo Photography Exhibition On the way to Johna's
Origin Gallery Shanghai
2005 Begin to do art
徐 程
1980 生于上海
2003 毕业于东华大学电脑艺术设计系
2004 春分同张君刚、朱隶创立了民间影像摄影网络
刊物《象》 (http://gnaix.org)，继续至今。
2005 参与自费发表了极少量复印影集《无名的影集》
和相关张贴行为的展览Xcopy001。
群展：
2004 杭州光彩空间 "风景影像展"
2004 上海光复西路145弄 "Xcopy001"
2005 上海先进艺术中心 “造影展”
2005 明园艺术中心“象博物馆的好照片”
2005 上海多伦现代美术馆 "单一"
Xu Cheng
1980 Born in Shanghai
1999 Begin to take photo
2003 Graduated from Art & Design department of
Dong Hua University
2004 established the online magazine, Xiang
(http://gnaix.org)
2005 Published the photo book printed by copy machine,
<Nameless Album>;
and held the exhibition Xcopy001
Group Exhibition
2004 <City Image> in exhibition of <Scenery Image>,
Hangzhou
2004 Xcopy001, Shanghai
2005 <Wuyi Building> in exhibition of <Shadow Maker>,
Advanced Art Center Shanghai
2005 <Homescape> in exhibition of <Nice photos in
museum>, Mingyuan Art Center
2005 <Senscape> in exhibition of <MONO>,
Shanghai Duolun Modern Art Museum
朱 锋
1974年出生于上海
毕业于华东师范大学艺术系 ，现居上海
展览：
2000 《夜上海》 上海威马影廊
2000 《上海第五届国际影展黑白摄影联展》 上海展览中心
2002 《图像·变像》观念摄影展 上海师范大学无形画廊
2002 《平遥国际摄影节--中国新摄影》 山西平遥
2003 《平遥国际摄影节--失乐园》 山西平遥
2004 《六筒--都市新生代影像展》 上海星光摄影家画廊
2004 《武夷山国际摄影周--虚弱的人》 福建武夷山
2005 《2005广州国际摄影双年展》 广东美术馆
Zhu Feng
1974 Born in Shanghai
Graduated from the Fine Art Deptartment of East China Normal University. Currently lives in Shanghai
Exhibitions:
2000 THE NIGHT OF SHANGHAI,Shanghai Weima Gallery
2000 the 5th Shanghai International Photography
Exhibition, Shanghai Exhibition Center
2002 IMAGES AND VARIATIONS,
Wuxing Gallery, Shanghai Normal University
2002 China New Photography
Pingyao International Photography Festival
2003 PARADISE LOST
Pingyao International Photography Festival
2004 LIUTONG - Urban New Generation Image Exhibition,
Shanghai Xingguang Photographer Gallery
2004 THE WEAKLINGS
Wuyi Mountain International Photography Week
2005 TOP, 2005 Guangzhou Photo Biennial
朱 浩
1969年出生于上海
毕业于上海戏剧学院戏剧文学系
现任奥美上海创意总监
个展：
2002 《01现场--上海和其它》 上海威马摄影画廊
《阿拉》 北京祥生行大众影廊
2003 《阿拉--上海的海》 平遥国际摄影节
2004 《动物课》 福建武夷山国际摄影节
《动物课》 韩国亚洲摄影双年展
2005 《场景》 广州摄影双年展
联展：
2002 《都市摄影6X9》 上海星光摄影家画廊
2003 《都市、女人》 上海中信泰富时尚沙龙
Zhu Hao
1969 Born in Shanghai, PR China
1991 Graduated from the Drama Literature Department
of Shanghai Theater Academy
Solo Exhibitions:
2002 "The Scene, 2001",
Shanghai Kodak Weima Gallery
2002 "A La snaps" - Peep into Shanghainese lifestyle,
Beijing POP Photography Gallery
2003 "A La snaps" - Shanghainese on the beach,
Pingyao International Photography Festival
2004 Zoo, International Photography Festival,
Fujian, Wuyishan
2004 Zoo, Asian photography Biennial, Korea
2005 Places, 2005 Guangzhou Photo Biennial
Group Exhibitions:
2002 "Shanghai city",
Shanghai Star Photographer Gallery, China
2003 "City, Woman" , Shanghai Citic Salon