Author:Dennis K. Chin(1922-2014)

Category：Photograph

Material:Paper

Year：1939

Size:Length:18.9 x Width:17.7 (cm)

Size description：無

Introduction：First Calling (Stillness), and Wind (Movement), in Chin’s own words, are two works of walnut and corn field under the influence of pictorial photography movement in the West in the second half of the 19th century. He, Long Chin-san and others were all influenced by this trend. At that time, he started to take pictures, attempting to shoot in the painterly style of pictorial photography and pursuing a situational atmosphere. He tried to use this method to photograph the daily scenes. Shooting walnuts is like an artist who just started to learn to sketch and practice drawing still life. He took the scene of the corn field as he was drawn to the swaying movement of the branches and leaves of the corn under the strong wind and the clouds full of dynamics behind.

At the exhibition celebrating his 90th birthday, Chin reinterpreted the two award-winning works he shot at the age of 17. Shot at different moments but exhibited together, First Calling (Stillness), and Wind (Movement) are like the stillness and dynamics in Tai Chi. The heaven and the earth grow all things, just like the alternating of seasons and the life he had gone through when he was young.

Yang Yong-zhi, “2021 Compilation and Research Project of Metadata in Photography”.

Quotation by Dennis K. Chin, compiled by Angel Yang.
Media sources related to the “old gamin of photography,” Dennis K. Chin, compiled by Angel Yang.
Materials related to Chin’s works dictated and provided by students of Dennis K. Chin, Ching Hsieh and Angel Yang.

Media and Techniques：Gelatin silver print

Accession Number:NCP2016-012-0028