摄影家林然的影像心境

《摄影家林然的影像心境》

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初次接近摄影家林然的作品，便被他的影像理念和文化经验所吸引，并情不自禁地融入到由他的潜意识倾向展现出的心境当中。

对林然本人，了解不多，只是在他的摄影作品里，第一次间接地触摸到他的内心。

据说，林然曾经北漂10年，期间，一度被边缘化，之后，被迫回到故乡成都，又沉寂了10年。前后20年，对于一个挚爱摄影的人来说，始终如一的坚守一件事，并为此进行长久的思索、探究，确也不易。

然而，在他的《穹谷》摄影系列的本质里，非常意外地被其磅礴的影像气势所震撼， 如同发现新世界一般，令人肃然起敬，恍如在他的影像世界，重新亲身经历了一场关于生命经验的体验。

摄影家以自然景象硕大的体积，委婉的演示了被定格后的浩瀚与伟岸，并经过影像语言，细腻地隐喻了“静态”生命的漫长孕育过程，且将依附于“时间生命”的“存在因素”及“焦虑意识”，集结在影像语言的叙事序列当中，既坦然解答、鞭策了“匆忙”过失的原委，也以此真诚告诫：我们每时每刻都需要主动地选择、培养对生命的呵护，以及持续维系生命的勇气和能力。摄影家以宏大的视角，不仅交代了自然物象的体温、体态和情绪，更以博大的心境，使原始的生态原貌，具有了人文因素的庄重，并不失时机，下意识地暗示了与人类散漫行为相关的，包括人类明确减缓对彼此关照的衰竭迹象。

林然诚恳地借助影像，传达了他与中国文化之间存在的千丝万缕的关系，以及始终未被其它文化形态所左右的个体思想和观念，尤其是通过影像手段，客观表述了视觉化的哲学性思考与主张。 《穹谷》中，空灵、深远、自由的旷野视角，或类似于中国水墨文化的泼墨形态。摄影家经过视觉形式更替性的转换，使摄影中的影像语言，准确的具有了超现实表现主义的写意属性，且赋予了更加浑厚、凝重的色彩，甚至，因为于此，可以阅读到每一帧影像的“文化记忆”。他在一个极富现实的多元环境，不仅流露了异常孤单的身影，也将那份孤单，自然融入到对生命深层体验的环节，不难看出，由个体“修炼”，至文化认知的实际“修为”，继而衍生出一份于文化态度密不可分的沉稳因素。《穹谷》的气势，不同于以往大多数摄影较为顽固的拍摄模式，摄影家以内心活动为源点，成像化的进行了文化心理的独白， 这其中包含了对人性间接的重温、同情、爱怜和歌颂， 在“存在与虚无”的隐喻分析层面，交代了“觉醒”意识及“宏大”气势的语言叙事张力，包括对“相对文化”，因摩擦所产生的精神透析与解读。《穹谷》系列，不仅改变了风景摄影概念化的表现形式，也格外的有别于以往摄影语言简单直白的惯性规则， 它既存在“景象与意识”相互交织的逻辑关系；也蕴含了摄影手段可以自如 “挺进”文化“体态”的意向；更以非符号化的风格，传递了别样的文化心理及不同质感的视觉韵律。 同时，以个体已有的能量，使影像呈现了轩昂的气息，并经过理性的交叉“释放”，使已获得的经验，在影像的方寸间，贴切地得以意识形态化的图解， 从而，为识别不同类型的影像风格，提供了独特、真实的依据。

林然，作为中国当代摄影界为数不多的优秀摄影家之一，因其作品，已经完全与世界不同文化背景的影像语言，构成彼此交汇。而这个清晰、纯粹的过程，基本确定了：摄影家的存在价值和意义，以及如何存在，或如何继续存在”的答案。

在当代众多“影像作品”中，我们比较容易看到许多极端的创作追求，他们拼尽全力，或傾其一生，偏执地克隆、追随了西方文化的格调，其结果，不仅轻易丧失了个体文化身份，也使影像所具有的“意识形态”，被摧毁性的进行了“文化剥离”和“戏谑”，乃至，长时间的沦落为外来殖民文化的奴隶。

谨慎的面对不断濒临的危机，唯有“个体文化”的“自觉独立”意识，方能维系“存在”的根本与基础，以此，避免被轻易吞噬的可能。庆幸的是，照相术诞生百余年后的今天，摄影艺术，作为既独立又与意识相关的视觉影像形态，也具有了中国影像文化的精神和特征，摄影家林然的非凡手笔，确切的注解了极少数中国摄影家，尚存的清醒意识与个体文化绝对独立的态度；也因此，明确的预示了中国当代摄影，关于影像的人文思考与表达观念，以及随心驾驭所具有的稳定因素和能力。

心在，行则自由，方向则更远。摄影家林然独具理性的知觉心智，以及坦然坚守孤独的勇气，或许，可以促使我们依旧冷漠、散乱的文化意识，包括那些仍然存在的昏浊目光，能通过摄影家的影像思想与视角，修正性的被牵引到那份具有启示作用的凛然心境当中。

Image state of mind of photographer Lin ran

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The first approach to photographer Lin ran's works was attracted by his image concept and cultural experience, and could not help but blend into the state of mind displayed by his subconscious tendency.I don't know much about Lin ran, but I felt his heart indirectly for the first time in his photography.It is said that Lin ran north for 10 years, during which, he was once marginalized, and was forced to return to his hometown of chengdu after 10 years of silence. In the past 20 years or so, it is not easy for a person who loves photography to stick to one thing consistently and make long-term thinking and exploration for it.However, in the nature of his "dome valley" photography series, he was shocked by its magnificence of image, which was as awe-inspiring as the discovery of a new world, as if he had experienced a new experience of life in his image world.Photographer in a natural scene huge volume, euphemism demonstrates the vast after frozen and invasion, and through the image language, and metaphor of the "static" the long process of life, and will be attached to the "time is life" "factor" and "anxiety" consciousness, gathered in the narrative sequence of image language, both calm answer, propel the cause of the "rush" negligence, this sincere caveat: every time we need to actively select and cultivate of life care, and the courage to continue to sustain life and ability. With a grand perspective, the photographer not only explained the body temperature, posture and emotion of the natural image, but also gave the primitive ecological original appearance with the gravity of human factors, and lost no time, subconsciously implying the correlation with human loose behavior, including the signs of human clearly slowing down the exhaustion of caring for each other.With the help of images, Lin ran conveyed the countless relations between him and Chinese culture, as well as the individual thoughts and concepts that have not been controlled by other cultural forms. In particular, he objectively expressed the philosophical thinking and proposition of visualization through images.In "qianggu", the empty, profound and free perspective of the wilderness, or similar to the ink painting form of Chinese ink culture. Through the alterative transformation of visual forms, the photographer has made the image language in photography accurately possess the freehand nature of surrealist expressionism, and endowed with more vivid and dignified colors. Even, because of this, the "cultural memory" of each image can be read. In a highly realistic and diversified environment, he not only revealed the unusually lonely figure, but also integrated that loneliness into the link of deep experience of life naturally. It is not difficult to see that from individual "cultivation" to the actual "cultivation" of cultural cognition, he derived a composed factor inseparable from cultural attitude. "Dome valley", is different from most previous photography more stubborn shooting model, photographer, with inner activity as the source point and imaging of the cultural psychology of monologue, which contains human indirectly to revisit, compassion, love and praise, in "being and nothingness" metaphor analysis level, narrates the sense of "awakening" and "grand" imposing manner of language narrative tension, including the "culture", due to the friction generated in the spirit of the dialysis and interpretation. The series of "dome valley" not only changed the conceptual representation of landscape photography, but also deviated from the simple and straightforward inertial rule of photography language in the past. It also contains the intention that photography can freely "advance" culture and "posture". In a non-symbolic style, it conveys different cultural psychology and visual rhythm of different texture. At the same time, with the existing energy of the individual, the image presents a dignified atmosphere, and through the rational cross "release", so that the acquired experience, in the square of the image, is appropriate to be ideologically illustrated, so as to identify different types of image styles, provide a unique and authentic basis.Lin ran, as one of the few excellent photographers in China's contemporary photography circle, has fully integrated with the image language of different cultural backgrounds in the world due to his works. And this clear, pure process, basically establishes the answer: "the value and meaning of the photographer's existence, and how it exists, or how it continues to exist."In many contemporary works of "image", we are more likely to see many extreme pursuit, and they, or a lifetime paranoid cloning, follow the style of the western culture, as a result, not only easily lose individual culture identity, also make the image of "ideology", be destructive stripping "culture" and "joking", and, for a long period of time to foreign slaves of colonial culture.Faced with the ever-approaching crisis cautiously, only the consciousness of "self-independence" of "individual culture" can maintain the foundation and foundation of "existence", so as to avoid the possibility of being swallowed up easily. Fortunately, photography was born hundreds of years later, the art of photography, as both independent and related to the sense of vision image form, also have the spirit of Chinese image culture and characteristics, the photographer Lin Ran is special, the exact annotation the few Chinese photographer, of waking consciousness and individual culture absolutely independent attitude; Therefore, it clearly foreshadows Chinese contemporary photography, the humanistic thinking and expression of images, as well as the stable factors and ability to control them at will.The heart is in, the line is free, the direction is farther. Photographer Lin Ran unique rational mental consciousness, and the courage to open to lonely, perhaps, can we still cold, messy culture consciousness, including those still faint turbidity vision, ideas and perspectives can pass the photographer of the image, correction was carried to have enlightenment role that Lin however of mood.

林然，1958年出生于重庆，著名摄影艺术家，现生活于四川成都。作品集：《芙蓉花》《菊花石》《沉默的草原》《草堂》《虚步上清 眩目安澜》《灵堂》《花开花落》《穹谷》《散心》

Lin ran, born in 1958 in chongqing, is a famous photo artist who now lives in chengdu, sichuan province.Collection:hibiscusChrysanthemum stoneSilent prairie"Thatched cottage"The empty step on the road"Hall"Blossom and fall"The valley of dome""Hey,"