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Name:Chen Changfen
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Year of birth: 1941
Place of birth:Hunan,PRC
Started to work as a photographer and now a permanent member of the Association of Chinese
Photographers,a member of the editorial board of "CHINA PHOTOGRAPHY"and the most authorita-
ztive aerial photographer.
June 1987 Chen Changfen Artistic Photographic Works Exhibition held at the China Art Gallery.
Sept.1987 "COLLECTION OF CHINESE PHOTOGRAPHER C HEN CHANGFENtS
WORKS"published by China People's Art Publishing House.
"The Ten-Thousand Miles Mountain Passes"as a front-cover photo was awarded the Best Professional
Photographer at the "SWISS GRAPHIC PHOTO'S 87".
Feb. 1988 First symposium on Chen Changfen's photographic art sponsored by the Association of
Chinese Photographers.
Aug. 1989 Chosen by"TIME"mlagazine as one of the eminent photographers in the past 150 years
since the inven-tion of photography and his portrait was the cover picture.
Oct. 1989 Awarede the "Gold Statue Prize"of the First China Photographic Art.
1990 Published in Japan the full-length photo album 'The Great Wall".
1992 Awarded the Special Allowance of the Chinese government.
1994 Published the photo album "The Ends Of The Earth".
1996 Held the photograph.exhibition entitled "The Hada Brought back from Tibet".
Jan 1997 Included in World History of Photography (United States,revised third edition.A World History
of ISBN O-7892-0028-7),and a special appraisal was made on the photography of Chen Changfen. It
is said in the book,"Owing to Chen Chnagfen's comprehension of the aesthetic potential of
photography,he has merged modern aesthetic concepts with ancient philosophical ideas in his airphotos
of earth,sun and moon.His photographic works "The Fission" was also included in this edition at the
same time.
June 1999 Engaged as the Kodak profession photography sprcial envoy.
August 1999 Hold the photographic entitled "The Great Wall Chen Changfen Photographic Exhibition"
at China Art Gallery. '
End 1999 will Publish a luxury album'"The Great WaII".
Over the past 20 years,several ten pieces of his photographic works were collected by some foreign
big enterprises and persons.Some photographic works and concerned articles which the theme is "The
Great Wall"were ofen published and issued by [Aperture], [Popular Photography]magazine and some
pressorganization.CCTV,CCBSand some local TV sation have made news and special report about
him for many times.And also,he carried on the work in judge for national,international and some
large-scale photography exhibition.For years, he visited,interviewed and worked in the United
States,Japan,the former USSR, Thailand, Turkey, Germany, Romania, Belgium, France, Italy,
Switzerland, Greece, Hungary, Poland,the former Czechoslovakia .
http://www.chenchangfen.com e-mail:chenchangfen@chenchangfen.com
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