共鸣: 致敬罗伯特·弗兰克

三影堂摄影艺术中心（北京）荣幸呈现展览“共鸣：致敬罗伯特·弗兰克”。本次展览是继其2020年度集美·阿尔勒国际摄影季亮相后的首次巡展。罗伯特·弗兰克被誉为曾经改变西方摄影史发展方向的人，他最为著名的由83张照片构成的摄影集《美国人》（The Americans）被奉为颠覆传统的摄影经典。西方摄影的发展在他的影响下形成了拐点，此后的几代摄影人朝多个方向开疆拓土，构成了20世纪后半叶摄影多元化发展的主要形态。

本次展览为大家呈现了希帕画廊和艺术家黄庆军、荣荣所收藏的弗兰克摄影原作。伴随着这些珍贵作品，我们还集结了十三位（组）中国摄影师的作品一同展示。莫毅和韩磊分别于1980年代初期和中后期开始进行摄影创作，当时中国人对弗兰克知之甚少，但他们的作品却在精神和气质上体现出了某种共鸣。魏来、卢恒、王轶庶、黄庆军都曾拜访过弗兰克在纽约的工作室，在面对面的交流中，他们的作品得到了弗兰克的认可和鼓励；曾翰和骆丹都进行了“在路上”的游走式拍摄，他们从弗兰克和“垮掉派”那里获得了精神层面的感召；陈荣辉获得了耶鲁大学的“弗兰克基金会·常玉奖学金基金”赞助，旅美求学的他也和弗兰克一样，保持了异乡人的观察视角；朱浩、鸟头小组、姚瑶和周强的摄影创作，分别在各自影像的时间感、秩序感、隐喻性和动态影像等多重方面体现出了与弗兰克的呼应。

这些艺术家形成了一组自1980年代以来近40年的中国摄影人的个体实验样本，他们分别在不同的时期和阶段体现出了将摄影作为艺术语言的自觉性。他们在看向西方的同时，寻求着自身本土经验在世界艺术史中的价值对位。在这些可贵的探索过程中，中国的艺术创作者跨越了时空的局限，在不同时代和不同面向上，与罗伯特·弗兰克形成了复杂且细腻的震颤与共鸣。我们以此展览向罗伯特·弗兰克——这位具有开创精神摄影先驱致敬。

Three Shadows Photography Art Centre is honored to present the exhibition “Resonance—A Tribute to Robert Frank” .This will be the first tour of the exhibition after its appearance at the Jimei×Arles International Photo Festival in Xiamen in 2020. Robert Frank is credited as the one who changed the course of Western photography, and his most noted 83-photo album The Americans is considered a photographic classic that subverted the tradition.Under Frank’s influence, the development of Western photography experienced a turning point, with later generations of photographers breaking new ground in many directions, which constituted the main form of the diversified development of photography in the second half of the 20th century.

This exhibition presents a selection of original photographs by Robert Frank from the collections of CIPA Gallery and the artists Huang Qingjun and RongRong. We have also assembled the works by thirteen Chinese photographers to present along with these precious Frank’s photos. Mo Yi and Han Lei started their photographic creation in the early and mid-1980s respectively. At that time, although the Chinese knew little about Frank, there was a certain resonance with Frank in spirit and temperament in their works. Wei Lai, Lu Heng, Wang Yishu and Huang Qingjun all visited Frank's studio in New York and received recognition and encouragement from Frank during their personal communication. Zeng Han and Luo Dan both conducted the “On the Road” wandering photography, spiritually inspired by Frank and the “Beat Generation”. Chen Ronghui was sponsored by the “Frank Foundation — Sanyu Scholarship Fund” of the Yale University. Like Frank, he has maintained the perspective as a stranger while studying in the US. The photographic works by Zhu Hao, the Birdhead, Yao Yao and Zhou Qiang echo with Frank’s in multiple aspects of the sense of time, order, metaphor and moving image respectively.

These artists have formed a group of individual experimental samples of Chinese photographers in the past forty years since the 1980s, who have embodied a consciousness of photography as an artistic language at different times and stages. When looking at the West, they seek the benchmark with their own local experiences in the history of world art. In the course of valuable explorations, Chinese artists have transcended time and space, and formed complex and delicate vibrations and resonances with Robert Frank in different times and directions. With this exhibition, we will pay tribute to Robert Frank, a pioneer of groundbreaking photography.