Modern Asian Art - Long Chin-San - Cross-Island Highway

Long Chin-San 郎靜山

Long Chin-San 郎靜山

Cross-Island Highway 《東西橫貫路》

1962

gelatin silver print 銀鹽相紙

34.2 x 49.4 cm

Courtesy of Sotheby's Hong Kong

Long Chin-San was an influential figure in Chinese photography, globally renowned as a master of the modern art form.  Long Chin-San's style ranged from documentary to human subjects,  nudes, composite pictures, and photograms across his 90-year-long career.

This historically significant Cross-Island Highway was given in 1962 as a gift from Long to former president Mr. Chiang Ching-kuo, who was at the time overseeing the construction of Taiwan's Central Cross-Island Railway.

《東西橫貫路》是郎靜山台灣時期非常重要的一幅作品。題款中的「壬寅」即1962年。 1960年, 台灣中部的橫貫公路通車,成為首條串聯東部與西部的公路系統,此重要工程當年動用了一萬多位退伍國軍, 耗時三年九個月, 而主事

者乃時任行政院國軍退除役官兵就業輔導委員會主任委員的蔣經國先生。1962年, 郎靜山以中國攝影協會理事長身份, 獲邀參觀並拍攝橫貫公路, 郎氏正好 發揮「集錦」技法, 將橫貫公路190公里的美景精華盡收此幅。

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