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| 鲍昆老师的策展前言
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| 时间：2009/05/03 出处：泡网俱乐部 |
辉煌“江湖”
任何一种新的表达媒介出现之后，都会迅速衍生出相应的体
制和其间的权力结构系统，并由蓬勃进入僵化和衰落。这种
体制和权力圈子就是只有汉语才能精妙命名的“江湖”。江
湖，一个自然地理的表意名词，运用在人文政治关系上，则
是一个气象万千的超隐喻。江湖，也即社会和世界，大大小
小的江湖你来我往相互博弈，正是这个世界的样貌和关系常
态。摄影是媒介，自然也有江湖，而且总是新江湖战胜老江
湖。因为，新就会有力量。
1999年，一个以“江湖色”命名的摄影论坛出现在年轻的中
国互联网世界上。她是一个网络事件的结果，也是走向嘈杂
热闹民主的网络生活的必然。从中国第一个摄影论坛“四通
利方BBS摄影版”，后来叫“新浪摄影天地”走出来的一群
人，以告别摄影只是器材话题的主张，开始在“江湖色”上
以会员相互之间观看作品的方式探讨摄影的意义。
“ 江湖色”这种先“集中”后“民主”的方式，保证了声音
的纯粹性和前卫性，一时成为领风气之先的现象。她为当时
的摄影文化进步提供了新鲜的力量，其间一些关于“糖水片
”的热闹讨论，最终为构建和向摄影的多元价值观念转型，
从民间的角度承载了相当大的历史舆论作用。从网络出发的
“江湖色”，从一开始就显示了她和传统纸媒完全不同的活
力，为新时代的摄影文化的民主性传播起到巨大的推动作用。
“江湖色”不尚空谈和以作品实践“见真章”的交流方式，
也让她成为一个艺术家和摄影家的“孵化器”。从“江湖色”
走出了许多成功的艺术家和摄影家，现已蜚声摄影界。
“江湖色”是中国当代摄影史中一个曾经辉煌而且重要的段
落，是未来人们可回视自己路程的脚印。
鲍昆
A Splendid Jiang-Hu
Any new medium of expression, soon after its emergence, will rapidly derive a corresponding system and power structure, and then moves from boom into rigidity and decay. Such system and power structure can be accurately expressed in the Chinese language as ‘Jiang-Hu’ (‘River and Lake’). Jiang-Hu is originally a geographical ideogram, but once it is applied to the political relationship in the human society, it will become a hyper-metaphor for unlimited interpretation and association. Jiang-Hu is the society, Jiang-Hu is the world. In all kinds of Jiang-Hu, big or small, people come and go in a web of game playing, which reflects the social landscape and inextricable interrelationship of the world. Photography is the medium, so it has its own Jiang-Hu, in which case, the new Jiang-Hu is always overwhelming the old Jiang-Hu, because the new one has more power.
In 1999, a photo forum named ‘Jiang-Hu-Se’ appeared in the young internet world of China. The birth of Jiang-Hu-Se is actually a result of an incidence online and such birth is a logical outcome of life on internet which originated from talkativeness, excitement and liberty. A group of people, walking out of the Stone Richwin BBS Photo Channel, the first photo forum in China later renamed Sina Photo forum, bide farewell to confinement of only discussing camera and equipments and began their photographic new journey as Members at ‘Jiang-Hu-Se’, exploring the meaning of photography by critiquing each others’ photographic works.
The unique mode of democratic centralism at ‘Jiang-Hu-Se’ provides a guarantee to undistracted and sophisticated discussion on photography, which was hailed as an advanced means of online interaction. This has added fresh impetus to the advancement of photographic culture, which is further consolidated by the heated debates on pros and cons of ‘beaux arts photos’. All these have paved the way for the ultimate transformation and construction of a multi-value photographic concept. In so doing, ‘Jiang-Hu-Se’, from the very beginning, has exhibited a dynamic vitality, entirely different from the traditional medium, and exerted an enormous power pushing the democratic diffusion of photographic culture in today’s new age.
The emphasis on down-to-earth photo practice and candid exchange of views has made ‘Jiang-Hu-Se’ an ‘incubator’ for many artists and photographers who have become successful and influential in the photographic circle.
‘Jiang-Hu-Se’ is undeniably an important and splendid chapter in China’s contemporary photographic history, and it will surely remain as path-blazing footprints for future generations to look back.
BAO Kun
12 April 2009
感谢Jura，将鲍昆老师的文字翻译成英文。 |
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