清明上河图4米长多少钱
陈锦没有想到清明上河图4，自己给家乡拍摄清明上河图4的照片突然有天引起这么大关注。一时间清明上河图4，各种荣誉和奖项接踵而来。中央电视台、日本NHK专门跑到成都去采访清明上河图4他。
他的照片荣获中国摄影界最高奖项金像奖清明上河图4；国际民俗摄影人类贡献奖一等奖。而这件拍摄家乡市井百姓的事情，他一个人其实已经默默无闻地坚持了30多年。
那是在1983年深秋，陈锦在北京故宫博物院仔细地拜读《清明上河图》，对画中描绘的那些生动逼真的世俗场景，忽然有一种似曾相识的感觉，脑海里浮起了很多儿时关于家乡的记忆。自此他种下了留住家乡传统市井生活影像的愿景。之后，他拿起相机，开始在家乡成都乃至川西平原城镇拍摄，一拍就是30多年。他用10万张照片，留下了属于自己家乡的《清明上河图》。
Chen Jin never expected the photos he had taken of his hometown would cause such a sensation. When all of a sudden he was given an award after another, and when the Chinese Central Television and Japan Broadcasting Corporation went all the way to Chengdu to interview him, he was caught by surprise.
He has won the Golden Statue Award for China Photography, the country’s top award for individual photographers, and the first prize of the Humanity Photo Awards.Chen has been taking photos of his hometown and the people there for more than 30 years in obscurity.
It was the late autumn of 1983 when Chen was studying closely the painting Along the River During the Qingming Festival in the Palace Museum in Beijing. The festive spirit and worldly scenes in the painting suddenly gave him a sense of déjà vu, reminding him of his childhood in hometown — Chengdu. At that moment, an idea of recording the traditional daily life of people in his hometown through photos began to take root in his mind. Later, he started shooting pictures in Chengdu and even the Western Sichuan Plain, and has been doing this for over 30 years. He has created his hometown’s version of Along the River During the Qingming Festival with 100,000 pictures.
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In 1980 when Chen was still a university student majoring in Chinese, he braced himself to borrow 100 yuan from his friend, the class monitor, to buy an Eastar S3 camera, but was met with criticism. The monitor berated Chen, saying it would distract Chen from study, yet he still agreed to lend Chen money in the end.
At the university class reunion in 2016, Chen’s classmates were all excited to see the pictures that Chen had taken of them over 30 years ago. And the monitor thanked Chen for keeping their good memories for them.
After graduation, Chen returned to his hometown and started taking photos of the ordinary people and their life there. For him, the most important thing was to be real and natural, so he often wandered about with a camera.
Chen Jin, 30 years ago
Since the teahouse is a place where people relax themselves, Chen has turned himself into a teahouse-goer to get the real selves of other customers there. He would spend a whole day in the teahouse chatting with other tea drinkers and listening to storytelling and Sichuanese operas. As everybody sees him as a friend instead of a photographer, he is able to capture the moments when tea drinkers are at their ease, such as playing with their pet birds, flipping through newspapers or books, staring into the distance, getting some shuteye, taking a nap, getting a massage, or clearing their ears.
In teahouses, Chen has witnessed many lives, sad and happy, as well as changes to this city. Some teahouse-goers that were in Chen’s pictures 30 years ago have arranged a get-together in the same teahouse.
Chen felt deep emotions when the family of a frequent customer carried his coffin to the teahouse he had frequented to say goodbye.
By coincidence, the photography community came across Chen’s pictures of teahouses and marveled at these pictures that were strong in content and artistic value.
Xiao Quan, a famous photographer, was surprised at Chen’s pictures. He said, “Seeing just a few pictures has already made me thrilled.” Thanks to Chen, the visionary photographer with sharp eyes, the 30 years’ history of Chengdu has been well-recorded in his photos. As a photographer as well, I give my blessings to him; as someone also from Chengdu, I express my gratitude to him.
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According to Chen, all the awards and compliments are just a flash in the pan, and only passion and love last. What he likes best are still taking photos and wandering alone.
He gets up at four or five o’clock in the morning when there is barely daylight outside. And he then walks from street to street, witnessing the life in different towns.
He often photographs until very late without eating any food, but despite the physical tiredness, he feels a strong sense of accomplishment when he walks alone in the dark alleys.
If you go to the market, you don’t have to be a vendor or shopper; instead, you can just wander about, hang out, knock over a drink, sip tea or throw yourself in the hustle and bustle. Bigger markets are divided into as many as 20 to 30 dedicated sections, such as rice, vegetable, oil, pork, beef, fowl, fish, coal and bamboo product sections. A fair often attracts a large number of vendors and people living nearby. It is quite boisterous there, with people bargaining with each other and animals making noises.
Among frequent teahouse-goers, there is a group of bird-lovers. They have a relatively scheduled timetable every day. In the morning, they take their pet birds to the riverbanks or parks for morning sports, go back home at lunch time, take a nap, and then go to the “Orchid Teahouse” with bird cages at about two o’clock in the afternoon. It is the busiest time in the teahouse, with the twenty-some tables all occupied. The mix of birds’ singing and people talking creates a happy and relaxing atmosphere.
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With urbanization, people’s lifestyle has been greatly changed. Traditional tile-roofed houses have given way to modern high-rise buildings. Life in alley neighborhoods has gone with the disappearing traditional alleys.
Life in alley neighborhoods is not only a culture, but also part of the pure, innocent and genuine memories. Capturing and keeping the fading memories in pictures gives Chinese people spiritual comfort as these memories are the tenderest part in their heart, and has found its way into the Chinese nation’s collective nostalgia for this great age.
Most houses in Chen’s hometown Chengdu and in Western Sichuan Plain share a common characteristic — those by the street are often shops and those further behind are residential courtyards of different sizes. Houses by the street are often small and moist, and accommodate several generations at the same time. All the different lives have been vividly recorded through Chen’s camera.
I put this question to Chen several times, “Could you please share with us what has been the hardest time in the past 30 years of photographing?” Chen, now a man in his sixties, kept silent for a few seconds before answering, “For me, it has been all about happiness. I don’t have any tough memories.”
Streets there are very narrow, lined with homes on both sides. Long bamboo poles run across the street from the eave of one house to the other, with laundry hung on them.
At dusk, families move their dining tables to the street. Neighbors shout across the street, “What are you eating? It smells so good!”
Two old grannies are trying on new shoes.
Children are having a good time themselves. They often play hide-and-seek when the night falls.
A Mahjong party begins at noon.
Chen once said, “In a lifetime, one cannot achieve too many feats, but it is still something one should be proud of if he or she gets one or two worthy things done.
From the very beginning, I had already known what I was about to do would be a journey without company, so I have never expected any returns. Without too high expectations, nothing can be a disappointment to me, which is why I have never given up.”
Our thanks go to this photographer who has kept our memories for us so that we can still go through them after so many years.
Chen’s new book Folklife in the Late 20th Century China has been released, in which he has recorded every Chinese’s memories with 100,000 words and several hundred cherry-picked pictures.
About the Author: Chen Jin
Chen is a member of the China Photographers Association, Vice President of Sichuan Photographers Association, and Senior Editor of Sichuan Art Publishing House. He has dedicated his past 30 years to one mission — recording Chinese people’s day-to-day life and the authentic folklife in the late 20th century in China.
