Lang Jingshan (1892 - 1995) Travelling among Mountains and Streams silver halide photo paper executed in 1956 47.5 x 35.5 cm (18 3/4 x 14 in) signed in Chinese on negative and one artist's seal on silver halide paper
PROVENANCE An Asian Private Collection
Lang combined the technique of photography and the aesthetics of Chinese paintings to become a 'composite picture '. Lang's works are regarded as 'the most modern, immediate and Chinese' and his Chinese painting style photography has inspired generations of Chinese photographers to come. The compositions of Lang's works are distinctly Chinese, as they are in traditional landscape paintings yet he has invented his own ways of creating special effects by testing with various lenses with various objects or even Chinese calligraphy, making his own unique 'Lang-style' of artworks