A Landscape in History——On the Landscape Photography in China

The term “landscape photography” has its own special implications in China because it is entirely different from the representational natural scenery photography that we would normally expect it to be. The cultural and social implications of this term are so complex that they are deeply intertwined and entangled with our modern visual history and contemporary cultural lives. For over a hundred years, China’s landscape photography has witnessed the relationship between nature and Chinese people, and reflected the spiritual voyages of photographers in different political and economic settings.