作為一份持續關注影像閱讀與攝影出版的刊物，《攝影之聲》繼2012年製作「台灣攝影書特輯」並在2014年展開「台灣攝影書出版對話」，我們試圖以兩年為跨度來記錄台灣的攝影/出版發展歷程。今年我們再度啟動出版專題，從「書」的路徑來檢索攝影樣態，期待透過不斷地討論和書寫，為未來留下一份當代攝影文化觀察報告。
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本期由郭力昕、張世倫、李威儀、廖偉棠、冨山由紀子、東方輝、港千尋、顧錚與伊妮絲築起筆陣，進入台灣、香港、中國與日本的反叛運動場景。我們試圖重回台灣黨外運動興起的70年代、街頭狂飆的80年代，直至2014年太陽花學運的佔領現場，在抗爭照片、影片與攝影書堆中，追尋抗議攝影與影像政治的軌跡；同時爬梳香港與日本社會運動與抗議攝影的發展歷程，並針對60年代在日本引發的大規模抗爭事件──「三里塚鬥爭」進行了抗議攝影書考；另外也從達達主義攝影蒙太奇，看影像藝術的政治反抗。這期也特別邀請三位戒嚴世代的資深攝影工作者──宋隆泉、蔡明德、許村旭──進行影像對談，重現他們在《自由時代》、《人間雜誌》等新聞媒體工作時期在街頭運動前線攝影的衝撞實況。而內頁夾帶的《SHOUT》，則收錄香港攝影師林亦非在台灣三月學潮裡對懸浮青春的影像素描。
Comments closedVOP Issue 12 : 太陽旗下的凝視──<br>日本時代台灣寫真帖特輯 <br>Images Under the Rising Sun:<br>Taiwan Shashin Cho Issue
在台灣的歷史影像河流裡，自1895年起歷時五十載的日本統治時期，是攝影術作為官方重要宣傳工具，進而開啟台灣本土寫真紀錄的一道高潮。其中，由日本政府機關及寫真館積極出版，用以展示台灣政經發展成果、引介島內地理風土與人種民俗的各式「寫真帖」，有如一股圖像涇流，沖刷出早期台灣的殖民社會地貌，成為帝國版的「看見台灣」。
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作為台灣少數持續關注攝影閱讀的獨立刊物，《攝影之聲》在這期特輯裡，將攝影的重要表現媒介 ——「書本」作為主角，論辯當代攝影書在台灣的存在位置與價值，試著為這座擁有24小時書店的閱讀之島，重新定位攝影書的理解座標。
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Comments closed2011年冬天的一個午後，我和陳順築約好見面，我們在台北長安西路上的一家地下室咖啡館坐了下來，對面的台北當代藝術館正在舉行他的個展。話匣子打開，我們聊到夜幕低垂才離去。這段訪談後來整理並收錄在隔年一月發行的《攝影之聲》第三期裡。
這兩年，陳順築發現自己罹癌，他辭去22年的教學工作專心養病。我們去看他，消瘦的身形卻讓他那雙深邃的雙眼，顯得更加巨大而清亮。他說，病後才更覺察到生命是極其有限的時間，而他或許可以放下很多事，但放不下藝術，關於創作，他還有好多想像，但可惡的時間在與他賽跑⋯⋯
2014年9月，陳順築的最後一個臉書動態，停留在照片裡的一個背影，他站得高高地，獨自面向一片粼粼波光。一個月後，他在夢中遠行，帶著他的鄉愁記憶，去一個更高的地方望海。
我們在已經絕版的雜誌中找出這篇三年多前的對話，並在本期重新刊載；同時收錄藝術家陳界仁與姚瑞中寫給順築的信，以及從他借給我們的自1989年起至近期的數本個人手札中，選錄了一些他的隨筆與塗鴉。他說，這些筆記是一個藝術家天真的私語，有些玩笑，有些認真⋯⋯
謹以此，作為我們對於陳順築的思念。
One winter afternoon in 2011, I met up with Chen Shun-Chu in a Taipei cafe on Chang-an West Road. His solo exhibition was then on-going in the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei opposite the cafe. We chatted till late in the night. The interview was later published in the 3rd issue of VOP the next year.
Chen learnt about his cancer and quit the teaching profession that he had been in for 22 years. In these two years, he had been trying to fight the illness. We visited him and saw his frame becoming frail; his eyes seemed even deeper and larger as his body became thinner. He expressed that the illness had made him realize all the more that life is extremely short, and that he might not be able to hang on to a lot of things, but not art. He still had a lot of ideas about artistic creations, but time was against him……
His last Facebook status update in Sep 2014 was a photograph of a back shot, looking over the sea from a high fence. A month later, he passed away in his dreams,bringing with him all his memories and love of his motherland, setting off to an even greater height to gaze at the sea.
We extracted this from a conversation that is more than 3 years old which was featured in an out-of-print issue of Voices of Photography – re-published in this issue alongside letters to Chen Shun-Chu from artists Chen Chieh-Jen and Yao Jui-Chung, as well as some of his drawings and words from a huge stack of personal notebooks he’s kept since 1989 which he lent us. He said that these memos were an artist’s dreams: some were jokes, some were serious……
In memory of Chen Shun-Chu.