Reporter Meng Xiangjun
recently,
A photo on the big screen in Times Square in New York went viral.
Photographer Luo Bing's work "All in Love".
Image source: Luo Bing
In the photo,
Three female models show off their unique
feminine beauty,
Yellow, white, black,
Embrace intimately.
The photo is titled "All in Love",
It is the work of China's cutting-edge photographer Luo Bing.
Chinese photographer Luo Bing's works are on the big screen in Times Square in New York, USA.
Image source: Luo Bing's Sina Weibo account
As a famous American landmark,
Times Square (also known as Times Square), New York
Known as the "Crossroads of the World",
Its status is obvious.
Photographer Luo Bing's work.
Image source: Luo Bing
Netizens noticed that
The Chinese female model in the photo,
and some foreign fashion blockbusters,
Orientals have the opposite characteristics of "squinting eyes" and "advanced faces".
Hence the compliments.
Netizens praised the aesthetics of Luo Bing's photographic works.
Image source: Screenshot of Sina Weibo comment.
Chinese netizens said,
"This is the beauty of China",
"Really advanced face"...
Previously,
From the works of photographer Chen Man,
To the food company "Three Squirrels",
All because the model was deliberately created "squinting" makeup,
sparked public criticism.
behind this,
Filled with the long-standing Western perceptions of the Chinese
Stereotypical aesthetic.
The image of Chinese "squinting eyes" constructed in foreign films in the 1930s.
Image source: Sina Weibo video account @国is through train
Squinted eyes, high cheekbones,
From a hundred years ago, it symbolized the cunning image of the Chinese people.
"Fu Manchu"
appearing in Western novels,
to no matter the size of the eyes,
Squinting intentionally and picking up the corners of the eyes with fingers
insulting Asians
The West's devaluation and stigmatization of Asians and Chinese,
never stop.
August 2021,
Italy Juventus women's football team
Post a controversial photo,
In the photo the player is wearing an orange football cone,
Pull the corners of your eyes to make a "squinting" action,
Accused of insulting Thai players.
The incident caused an uproar,
In the end, the Italian side deleted the photo and apologized.
But it was criticized as "dishonest".
Recently, a video screenshot shows that a man pulled the corners of his eyes discriminatively at an Asian student on the side of a basketball game at Northwestern University in the United States.
Image source: Information website Nextshark
recently,
Northwestern University,
Another man confronts Asian students on the sidelines
make eye pull
He was later ejected from the arena.
After all, some people think that
This is the legacy of the "yellow peril theory" a hundred years ago
Such gestures and images have become
abusive culture
the size of the eye itself
Totally two different things.
Data map: Participants in the Chengdu (Shuangliu) Women's Half Marathon.
Photo courtesy of the Organizing Committee
What people object to is not what anyone looks like,
but deliberately shaped by art
racist imagery.
Some people also think that
Regardless of the original motive
cater to this aesthetic
will undoubtedly strengthen foreign countries in reverse
Stereotypes about China.
Figure 9. Works by Chinese photographer Luo Bing, close-up of the faces of three models.
Image source: Luo Bing
And this group of pictures by Chinese photographer Luo Bing,
In stark contrast to stereotypes.
January 22,
Luo Bing accepted an exclusive interview with Chinanews.com,
Disclosed the mental journey during the shooting.
Luo Bing was a Chinese student.
His work has its own unique style.
Luo Bing has participated in the United States
#Stop Asian Hate#
("Stop Asian Hate").
On February 27, local time, hundreds of people participated in a rally against discrimination against Asians in San Mateo, San Mateo, in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Su Kaiying, a 13-year-old Chinese junior high school student, expressed the hope that people of all ethnic groups will unite against hate crimes against Asians.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Liu Guanguan
The start of this procession,
It is in the context of the spread of the new crown epidemic,
U.S. targeting Asian-Americans, including Chinese
"Hate crime" incidents,
When it gets worse.
On February 27, local time, hundreds of people participated in a rally against discrimination against Asians in San Mateo, the San Francisco Bay Area.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Liu Guanguan
Luo Bing is inspired by personal experience,
Created "All in Love"
series of photographs,
He stated that, in his view,
skin color of different races,
just darken or lighten,
It should blend together like a palette.
And no matter what skin color,
beautiful and elegant,
should be synonymous with all women.
Screenshot of Luo Bing's Sina Weibo account.
Luo Bing said,
will continue to create,
To convey the Chinese aesthetics of the new era to the world.
I also hope that
Chinese photographers like Luo Bing
more and more,
Breaking down prejudices on the world stage,
Describe the beautiful, vivid and real China.
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