用镜头收藏老重庆的故事

□ 文/本刊记者 熊怡

用镜头收藏老重庆的故事

□ 文/本刊记者 熊怡

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淡淡的雾霭笼罩着长江两岸，湿润的空气里有腊梅的香味。这是重庆特有的冬日景致。南岸龙门浩建业岗，戴前锋不记得第几次站在这里远眺渝中。“你又来了啊。”认识戴前锋的老街坊看见他都会热情地打招呼，他总是笑着点头回应，转身透过相机镜头继续寻找属于他的城市记忆。

从1985年开始，戴前锋30年来拍摄了近10万张老重庆的照片。他用脚步丈量这座城市的广度和厚度，用镜头记录和收藏这座城市的历史影像。即使在同一个角度，戴前锋镜头下的老重庆也呈现出不同的情境。他坚信，在最熟悉的地方能拍出最美的照片。他说，“如果只是用镜头记录这座城市的变迁，1年时间就够了。而我30年都在拍重庆，因为这是我主观创作的审美过程，我非常享受。”

“山城的沧桑感，雾都的神秘感，立体的城市呈现出迂回婉约之美，构成了我对重庆历史和灵魂两个维度的审美。”戴前锋说，重庆是大河之城、两河之都，长江嘉陵，渝中江北，南岸北碚……这座像巨人一样的城市，它起伏的身躯简直是视觉艺术者的天堂。

小什字建国银行

磁器口

洪崖洞天成巷

生生花园

北碚草街子

上世纪30年代修建的重庆民居、抗战机构、名人旧居、外国使领馆等建筑，20年前的菜园坝、磁器口、洪崖洞、弹子石……戴前锋镜头里的老重庆，在网友和市民中逐渐引发共鸣，关注他的人也越来越多，他想把这些照片集中起来展示。“我也想为‘老重庆’这个题材画上句号，摄影集以‘故城’为名，既代表我的故乡，也是指拍摄的内容是过去的城市，成为了一段故事、一段历史。”

李柯成，重庆时光里艺术书吧老板。他是戴前锋的“粉丝”，也是土生土长重庆人，从小就住在南纪门山城巷，“戴老师留住了我们记忆里的老街老巷，他在做有意义的事，大家自然会来帮助他。”2015年6月，时光里艺术书吧在众筹网和公众号上，为戴前锋的《故城》发起了一场众筹。短短1个月内，项目就筹集到了四十多万元出版资金。

2015年11月，汇集了戴前锋千余张作品的摄影集《故城》（上下卷）首发。连李柯成也感到惊讶，首印1500册，很快就卖出上千本，而且很多是个人收藏，“有时读者也并不买，来到书店一看就是几个小时，在书里寻找儿时去过的老街。”

如果说戴前锋30年的拍摄历程，是一个人在记录一座城。那么，《故城》的问世，则点燃了成千上万的重庆人书写关于这座城市记忆的热情。

读者在书店和网上纷纷为《故城》留下肺腑之言：“记忆是生命延续的意义，当我们走过的路渐渐消失，保存记忆成为我们唯一能做的事。”“希望在《故城》这本书的光影构建里，寻找回家的路。它是一把钥匙、一个密码，能够打开回家的门。”……

玄坛庙

建业岗望渝中

现在，由《故城》衍生出来的“老重庆故事”超过了1000个。其中，最年长的读者是出生于1918年的刘大有老人，他亲笔手写了一段文字，描述了他年轻时记忆中的重庆较场口，还有那时人们对生活的热爱，充满了正能量；还有年纪最小的读者、2010年出生的小朋友，用画笔描绘了心中的故乡重庆。

“著名重庆籍导演张一白、作家虹影都给我们投了稿，讲述了自己和重庆的故事。”李柯成说，他们从中精选了100个故事，将以《故城时光》为名集结成书，在2017年4月“世界读书日”之际出版，为重庆直辖20周年纪念献礼。

（本文图片经时光里书店授权使用，版权归原作者所有，未经授权不得转载）

Over either side of the Yangtze River hangs a touch of fog, and moist air spreads with the fragrance of wintersweet. All these scenes vividly depict the uniqueness of Chongqing’s winter. Standing in the Jian Ye Gang, Long Men Hao, Nanan District, Dai Qianfeng has overlooked the Yuzhong District for so many times that he could not remember the fi gure exactly.“You’re here again.”The old neighbors knowing Dai Qianfeng always warmly greeted him like that. He always nodded his head with a smile, and then turned to capture his memory about Chongqing with his camera.

Since 1985, Dai Qianfeng has shot nearly 100,000 photos of old Chongqing. He measured the city’s breadth and thickness with his footsteps, recording and capturing historical images of the city with camera. Even captured from the same angle, the old Chongqing presents a different image under his camera. He believes that the most beautiful photo are collected in the most familiarplaces. He said,“If you just want to record the changes of Chongqing with your lens, one year is enough. But I have photoed Chongqing for 30 years because I enjoy this aesthetic process as my subject creation.”

“I hold such both aesthetic views of its history and soul from the vicissitudes of this mountain city, the mystery of the fog city, the detour and graceful beauty showing in this three-dimensional city.”Dai Qianfeng saidthat Chongqing is the city of two big rivers, which are the Yangtze River and Jialing River,running through many districts like Yuzhong District, Jiangbei District, Nan’an District, Beibei District and so on. This giant city simply offers a paradise for visual artists with its ups and downs.

Dai has photographed many images about old Chongqing like the residential buildings, anti-war institutions, old residence of celebrities, foreign embassies and consulates, all of which were built in the 1930s, Caiyuanba, Ciqikou ancient town, Hong Ya Cave, Danzishi which lived 20 years ago and so on. All of his shootings have had a chord with the netizens and the public. Therefore, as more public attention are paid to him, he wants to display his collections. “Since I would also like to end the theme of‘old Chongqing’, the photography will be called‘My Old Hometown City’,which both implies my hometown and the shootings of the past city which has become a story and a history.”

Li Kecheng runs a art book bar called Time Flavor in Chongqing. He is a fan of Dai and a native of Chongqing who has been living in the Hill Lane of South Gimen from an early age. He told,“Dai helps us to keep our memories of the old streets and lanes. He was doing something meaningful and we will help him with our sincere efforts.”In June 2015, to help the Dai’s publish of his photography, the book bar launched a public offering in the crowd-funding websites and Wechat public platforms. In just one month, more than 400 thousand yuan has been raised.

In November 2015, his photography including more than 1,000 works (upper and lower volumes) was published. Even Li Kecheng also felt surprised about the success that about a thousand of the fi rst printed 1500 volumes were sold in a short time. Notably, many are to buy for personal collections.“Even though readers sometimes are not to buy one, they come to the bookstore and have a long-time look for a few hours to recall the memories of old streets and lanes in the childhood.”

If Dai’s long-time shooting for 30 years is to record a city by himself, the publish of My Old Hometown City have lit the enthusiasm of thousands of Chongqing people to write about the city’s memory.

Readers in the bookstore and on the Internet wrote the sincere words for this collection like, “Memory is meaningful in the continuity of life so that what we can do is to keep our memory when our walked roads gradually disappear; we hope to fi nd the road to home in the photos of this photography; it acts as a key or a password that can open the door tohome...

There are more than one thousand stories derived from My Old Hometown City. The eldest reader, called Liu Dayou who was born in 1918, handwrote some words, describing his youth memory about Jiaochangkou and people’s love to life at that time. His action is full of positive energy; the youngest reader who was born in 2010 painted his hometown, Chongqing in his view.

“The famous director of Chongqing, Zhang Yibai, and the writer Hong Ying gave us a draft, telling their own stories about Chongqing. Li Kecheng said that they selected a hundred stories from which they would edit a book in the name of TheTime Spent in My Old Hometown City. And it will be published on the“World Reading Day”in June 2017 and mark the 20th anniversary of Chongqing Municipality.

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To Collect the Stories About Old Chongqing By Camera

□ Article/ Journalist Xiong Yi