英文摘要 |
In the past, histories of Taiwanese photography in the 1970s have focused on explicating the rise of reportage photography as a result of the precarious diplomatic situation, debates on nativist literature, and a flourishing print media. This study discusses the multiple forms and meanings of documentary photography from the standpoint of the photographers’agency and observation, and argues that the perspectives of fūdo and dwelling affected the shift from composing landscape imagery to exploration of places. In light of Watsuji Tetsurō’s“fūdo”theory, Martin Heidegger’s philosophy of dwelling, and Tim Ingold’s landscape theory, this paper analyzes the theme of homeland in the photographic works by Wan Hsin, Liang Cheng-Chu, Cheng Tsun-Shing in their biographic and social contexts. First, I will examine writings by Huang Tse-Hsiu and Chuang Lin that effectively formed the new landscape discourse, criticizing the pictorialist salon landscape and advocating for a sense of place and contemporaneity. Then, I will concentrate on Wang Hsin’s two series Taichung, My Hometown (1972) and A Trip to Wushe (1973-1974) and demonstrate the contrast in fūdo, vernacular custom, and ethnic cultures between the city and village. It is followed by a discussion of Liang Cheng-Chu’s photo-text reportage, The Puli Mountain Town(1978),as an embodiment of dwelling after his long-term drifting life experience and as his insightful fieldwork of local natural resources and industrial transformation. Furthermore, I will look at the atmospheric scenes of loss and decline in Cheng Tsun-Shing’s Pictures of Fleeting Lives in Luzhou(1975), as evocation of the psychological undercurrents hidden in the images. This article posits that the three photographers, rejecting the cliched pictorialist landscape with depleted meanings, actively searched for the interconnections between the selves and homelands. Beyond the framework of the mainstream media, they conveyed the fūdo and dwelling perspectives in their representations of Taiwanese urban and rural places and manifested the recording nature and ambiguous meanings of the photographic medium. |