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中國(guó)攝影師駱丹《素歌》系列將于10月29日起在上海m97畫(huà)廊展出。在創(chuàng)作《素歌》的過(guò)程中，駱丹運(yùn)用了始于1850年的傳統(tǒng)濕版火棉膠攝影技術(shù)，花了數(shù)月時(shí)間帶著便攜式暗房行走在中國(guó)南部云南省的偏遠(yuǎn)山區(qū)。在那里，村民們的生活方式大部分仍保留著幾百年以來(lái)的完整。該地區(qū)的很多村民是100多年前隨著基督教傳教士定居下來(lái)的，他們大都有著虔誠(chéng)的信仰，每個(gè)禮拜日都會(huì)穿著自己的民族服裝或最好的著裝去教堂。帶著對(duì)攝影過(guò)程和主題的尊敬，駱丹的“素歌”系列給觀眾帶來(lái)了一種穿越時(shí)間的感覺(jué)。濕版火棉膠技術(shù)是19世紀(jì)中葉非常流行的一種攝影技術(shù)，它能夠幫助攝影師獲取精美的細(xì)節(jié)。但是其繁雜的人工曝光和沖洗過(guò)程也導(dǎo)致了該技術(shù)在本世紀(jì)末的衰退。

m97 Gallery Shanghai is pleased to invite you to the opening of “SIMPLE SONG”, an exhibition of collodion wet plate photography works by Chengdu-based photographer LUO DAN. For his “Simple Song” project, Luo Dan employed the traditional collodion wet plate photographic process invented in 1850, spending several months traveling with a portable darkroom in remote and mountainous regions of China’s southern Yunnan Province. Looking to capture the purity of this photographic process, Luo Dan was able to reflect the authenticity found in rural life for many of China’s yet undeveloped regions, where the way of life has remained largely intact for hundreds of years. Many of the villages in this region were settled by Christian missionaries 100 years ago, where the local villagers are people of faith and devout churchgoers dressing up in their ethnic garments, or Sunday’s best. By bringing a reverence to both this photographic process and subject matter, Luo Dan’s “Simple Song” series is an effort to capture a sense of timelessness. An incredibly popular process in the mid-nineteenth century, wet plate collodion could render exquisite detail for photographers, but the laborious process of exposure and development also led to its decline towards the end of the century.

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