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摄影随想 —相机面对的那些事儿 人们研究历史、关心历史，也许是历史承载太多、有太多的不知情和太多的不确定，有太多需要去寻找、去揣测。同样是历史，大量石窟艺术给我们留下可以研究与揣摩的实物；同样是历史，北京明代城墙遗址也好像要诉说，毕竟它在那里已站立了几百年；同样是历史，展开

摄影随想 —相机面对的那些事儿 人们研究历史、关心历史，也许是历史承载太多、有太多的不知情和太多的不确定，有太多需要去寻找、去揣测。同样是历史，大量石窟艺术给我们留下可以研究与揣摩的实物；同样是历史，北京明代城墙遗址也好像要诉说，毕竟它在那里已站立了几百年；同样是历史，老家的旧屋，斑驳的墙壁、破碎的挂钩，还有屋前的老树，也使我忆起过去的岁月。然而，其中的今昔又是怎样的不同呢？ 石窟过去的那些大批供奉者，那些善男信女如今已经不复存在，代之而起的是旅游区、是旅游参观的人流，那些佛教故事依旧吸引人，但今人与古人的感受已不同，时过境迁，那些佛像已经被冷落，只能孤独地站在一边观看大千世界的芸芸众生从身边走过，这二者已经成为不可弥合的两种感觉，最起码对于大多数人是这样的，现代文明的高速发展，佛教已经不再是这个国家和民族的大众宗教。而跟佛教相关的另一个名词:“佛教艺术”也正好表明了这种态势，佛像、佛教壁画的审美价值和历史价值已经完全超越其‘教化’的本义了。 云岗石窟建于何时、历经多少战火？龙门石窟如何在武则天以后损毁？如果佛教真能佑人平安而远离战火，那么又何来这多战争哪！然而，过去的岁月里佛教也确实抚慰了太多的心灵，大千世界里的故事是难以胜说的！ 最近一次到云岗石窟，是在2009年的“五一”前后了，开车由北京出发，目的只是拍摄云岗石窟一号洞窟的佛龛和上一次在悬空寺漏拍的水库大坝。然而，到了之后才发现云岗周边已经面貌尽失，为了“申遗”云岗石窟周边建筑已尽数拆除，场面很是壮阔，不知等待它的命运是什么？或许是为了防止大坝出现险情的缘故吧，二十年未见变样的悬空寺水库大坝正在维修，机会不佑我，冬天漏拍的我，还是未能得到这张心仪已久的照片，在惋惜之外,心中也还有一丝安慰，毕竟在打开电视机满目灾难的今天，也许又少了一处隐患！ 日壮的经济和难得的假期催生了旅游产业，或叫眼球经济吧！各处景点人头攒动，那眼球带走了什么呢？这个时代的另一个名词很能说明问题，它叫做“快餐经济”，旅游更是一样，“到此一游”不光是写在了很多景点的建筑上，也已经写进大众的心里，成为多数人旅游的定式，即使旅行社推出的所谓深度旅游概念，也不过是景点的扩张和旅游版图的放大。读万卷书太累了，是不一定要的，行万里路见见世面，确实是刚富起来的、一直贫困惯了的大众所需要的，更何况面对独生子女“别输在起跑线上”的宏论，在火爆了各种针对孩子的培训班的同时，再就是旅游了，中国人肯于投资教育，望子成龙的理念传承是儒家文化的宝贵财富，而至今愈演愈烈，变得不再正常。同是传统，佛教佛像的命运好像与此刚好截然相反，也许是现代价值观念与之相去太远了吧！ 大批“盛会”还有各种名目的比赛娱乐节目，“眼球经济”充斥着大众的大脑，兴奋点被一再燃起，此起彼伏。然而兴奋之后就是失落，“玩的就是心跳”，这种生活态度形象地告诉了我们心灵深处的缺失，宗教能承担吗?佛教能承担吗？ 艺术也像一种宗教,也能起到教化的作用,也许艺术是未来的承担者吧？我不知道。大众空置的信仰，不知何时才能回落。 Thoughts on Photography: Something about Cameras Why do people study history and care about history? Maybe there is too much for history to carry, to search and assume and also too much uncertainty. It is also history that large amount of grottos leave us the real objects to research, and it seems that the city wall heritage of Ming dynasty wants to say something. As a matter of fact, it has been there for centuries. The old houses in hometown, pied walls, broken hooks, and the old trees in front of houses are all history, all these things make me think about the past time, are there any different with today? The devotees of grottos in the past and today’s devotees do not exist any more, but groups of tourists instead for. The stories about Buddha still fascinate tourists. time passes, things are different now. Those Buddha statues lonely stand there watching the crowds walk away. It becomes quite different feelings; it is quite true for most ordinary people. Comparing with the fast development modern civilization, they are no longer the religion of the country and nation. There is another word, which relates Buddha: 'Buddha art' and it rightly expresses this kind of situation. The aesthetic value and historical value of Buddha statues, as well as Buddha fresco have gone beyond their own connotation of 'cultivation'. When Yungang Grotto was built, and how many wars she has suffered? How did the Longmeng Grotto been destroyed after emperor Wu zetian in power? If Buddha can really help people far away from wars and misery, how did so many wars come from? While in the past, Buddha did help comfort souls of the people; there were lots of stories that are hard to tell. My latest visit Yungang Grotto was in May 2009. I drove to there from Beijing, and only wanted to shoot photos of the Buddha statue of No.1 grotto and the great dam in Xuankong Temple, which I missed last time. But when I arrived there, I found that the surroundings of the Yungang Grotoo have changed a lot. In order to applying for the world heritage, the surrounding buildings were removed, it was a huge project, and we do not know the result and fate will be? Maybe prevent for the catastrophe of the great dam, the great dam of Xuankong temple was on repairing that time, I had a bad luck, I did not get the desired photo which I missed shoot the great dam in last winter. Besides regret, a little console arise from my heart, after all, we believe that we have avoided a hidden danger which full of disasters in today’s TV program. The increasing economics and the god-given vacations urge the development of tourist industry, or so-called eye-economics. All resorts crowd with tourists, what do eyes take away? There is another word which can explain this question that is 'fast food economics'. It is the same with tourism. The sentence “I have visited this place” does not only write on many tourist buildings, but also in the heart of the people. It has become the stereotype, even though some of the travel agency has promote the in-depth travel concept. It is just expansion of the tourist resorts. Reading books is too tired, it is not the people’s need; traveling broadly and viewing the world is the need of the people who just get rich and have good life. Moreover, when we facing the theory of 'Do not lose at the starting line', besides the popularity of the children’s training-classes that is the tourism. Chinese are fond of investing on education. The inheriting of the idea of holding high hopes for one’s children is the great treasure of the Confucius culture. Nowadays, it becomes more intense and abnormal. It is also the tradition, but the Buddha statute has quite different desting, maybe it because there is too much difference with modern concept of value. There are also lots of various competitions and entertainment programs in the 'festival'. Eye-economics has occupied the brain of the ordinary people. The excitements of people were stirred up again and again. After the exciting movement, there comes the feeling of loss, 'Playing is just for the excited' this kind of life attitude tells us the loss in our heart. Can religion take the job? Can Buddha take the job? Art is like a kind of religion, it can also cultivate people, and maybe art is the future religion? I do not know when the vacancy of the religion in people’s hearts will be back. 收起