preface
Yang Shaoming is the eldest son of former state leader Yang Shangkun, who grew up in such a prominent family and the political capital given by his father, Yang Shaoming could have inherited his father's resources and embarked on a career path, but he chose to take a completely different path. This path is photography.
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Speaking of the origin of photography, when Yang Shaoming was a child, his father gave him a gift for his birthday as a camera, and since then photography has entered Yang Shaoming's life, and Yang Shaoming's living environment since childhood is a political family, so he can also contact many leaders, including Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and other great leaders.
So these leaders naturally became regulars in his lens. And his father Yang Shangkun's cultivation of him allowed Yang Shaoming to embark on a completely different path from other red second generations, but he also had a reverence for the revolutionary spirit and revolutionary ancestors, so he wanted to make his own contribution to the revolution through photography, starting from becoming a photojournalist.
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But Yang Shaoming's talent has not really appeared before he encountered a special period of turmoil, he was implicated because of the influence of his father, suffered from suppression and intimidation, in this case he did not put down the camera in his hand, let alone stop recording the pace of history to convey the truth.
He did not give in easily, and even helped crack the big case of the Gang of Four, and also contributed to the rectification of the chaos. From this point of view, Yang Shaoming is not only an ordinary photojournalist, but also a revolutionary photographer. The wheel of history rolled forward, and soon Yang Shaoming was rehabilitated and returned to the Chinese photography world.
As a photographer, Yang Shaoming's most noteworthy is that he photographed the great Deng Xiaoping for twelve years, which also makes the outside world think that he is Deng Xiaoping's royal photographer. In the twelve years of shooting, whether it is receiving foreign guests or accompanying him on a foreign trip, or The daily life of Deng Xiaoping, Yang Shaoming can complete his tasks brilliantly, and he can also shoot the temperature of the great man and the color of the story.
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The twelve years photographed with Deng Xiaoping are also the critical period of reform and opening up, and Deng Xiaoping's decision-making and the look behind the decision-making are all important materials of historical images. And Yang Shaoming is the creator of these important historical video materials, the recorder of the historical process, after that, Yang Shaoming also got his own rewards, relying on the series of works to get a lot of photography awards.
Nowadays, Yang Shaoming has passed the age of flower armor and has become a veteran photography master who is very important in today's Chinese photography industry, although he has achieved fame, Yang Shaoming did not choose to retire to raise his life, but continued to learn and practice, constantly enrich himself, and innovate shooting angle subjects and techniques.
He even has a more ambitious goal, that is, to use photography as a carrier to promote traditional Chinese culture to the world. Traditional culture photography is not simple, to some old objects, old crafts combined with the historical background to shoot the level and style is not an easy thing, but also in Yang Shaoming painstakingly looking for a way, and finally found a suitable for traditional photography style road. These traditional cultures, through photography techniques, shine in the long river of history.
summary
Yang Shaoming grew up from the knee of a great man in this life, and it was not easy to maintain the original love of photography from the beginning of the republic to the turmoil in the end. He is not only refined in his professional field, but also widely praised in terms of doing things, hoping that this master of photography will always maintain the youth of the republic with his works, always let people remember the most beautiful appearance of life, and also pay tribute to Master Yang Shaoming!