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光影如画。世界上最快的相机可以在一秒钟内拍摄3670万张照片，但真正的摄影师只撷取最触动人心的瞬间。走过60年征程的中新社，摄影事业从银盐胶片的邮寄传稿到缤纷炫色的数码时代，见证了中国和世界的历史变迁。在全民读图时代的海量图片中凸显中新社对外报道特色，更好地为海外华人华侨服务，中新社的摄影团队为此付出了一代代人的卓绝努力，任重而道远。
报道全球华人动态，展现全景中国影像，聚焦港澳台侨新闻，中新社的摄影记者总是以国际视角真实再现历史瞬间；历史进程中的政治领袖，大事件背后的无名英雄，冷暖人生中的万千民众，中新社的摄影师们总是以平实目光敏锐捕捉感人的刹那；行走在汶川地震山河悲鸣的大地，深入到SARS中小汤山对峙生命的一线，中新社的摄影人总是义无反顾地前进在“去现场”的路上。
300多张图片用来讲述60年历史的厚重也许略显单薄，用镜头裁剪生命的华彩也许略显仓促，我们能留下的历史瞬间只是沧海一粟，这里所呈现的图片更是不足万中之一。这本画册里的很多图片没有华丽的色彩，却有着力透纸背的历史烙印，让观者顺着时间长河而下，直面沧桑巨变。每一张图片背后都有一段引人入胜的故事，令人屏息凝神。
让每一张图片见证历史风云，让每一张图片触动人类心灵。中新社的摄影记者在好的技巧背后更多的是以至真至诚的情怀，传递跨越时空的影像，将世情冷暖的细节磨砺成直指人心的力量。拍摄瞬间，镜头背后的眼睛也会泪光盈睫；定格画面，快门上的手指也会微微颤抖。他们不是记录现场的冰冷机器。他们曾经见证并正在见证改变人类命运的历史！
大音希声，炼情达意，更胜千言万语。大爱无言，感怀天下，坐看云卷云舒。
中国新闻社社长
2012年8月6日
PREFACE
They say that a picture paints a thousand words. Indeed, while the world’s fastest camera is capable of shooting 36.7 million photos per second, a top photographer will choose to record only the most touching moments, the ones that reveal the most meaning. With the application of technological innovations, from halogenated silver negatives to state-of-the-art digitization over the past six decades, China News Service (CNS) has borne witness to the vicissitudes of China and the rest of the world. In an era that’s characterized by massive photos in news coverage, CNS has focused on highlighting reported news to overseas readers and enhancing its services for overseas Chinese. In reaching this goal, several generations of photographers from CNS have expended ceaseless efforts and much time. They have always been fully aware of the arduousness of their task and its long-term significance to posterity.
CNS photojournalists have always been capable of framing historical moments with an international perspective in reporting news about Chinese people all over the world, unfolding a panorama of China’s development and depicting the latest goings-on in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. They are adept at capturing iconic moments with clarity and matter-of-fact vision, regardless of whether the subjects are political leaders, major events or simply everyday citizens in daily life. Whether covering the catastrophic Wenchuan Earthquake of magnitude 8.0 on the Richter scale or the SARS-fighting frontline in Xiaotangshan (a small town in Changping District in Beijing which had the highest concentration of SARS patients in Beijing), the photographers with CNS always make it their priority to arrive on the spot in time.
While 300 photographs may scarcely begin to cover a history of 60 years, it might also be pointed out that others may say it is a little hasty to use a simple camera to describe the vivid and complex lives people lead, but we still feel content to preserve a fraction of history with plain but soul-stirring photographs. These pictures give viewers a clear and retrospective view at the vicissitudes of years past. Each of these pictures tells an interesting story which will draw your attention and linger in your mind long after you have turned the page.
These photos bear witness to decades of historical moments and each of them have been chosen to touch your heart. Aside from outstanding photography skills, sincerity and passion have allowed these photographers to capture images that span time and space and transform the minutiae of daily life into pictorial words that speak to the humanity inside every one of us.
Many of the photographs depict harrowing events. At the instant they were taken, the eyes behind the lens may have been blurred by tears and the fingers pressing the shutters may have trembled. But these photos reveal a clarity that speaks not of a cold-blooded recording, but a desire to be eyewitnesses to history and the varied events that make it.
In much the same way as the greatest love is wordless, the sound of silence can sometimes be the most poignant sound of all – what cannot be described in a thousand words can always be conveyed by a single snap of the camera shutters.
Liu Beixian
President of China News Service
August 6, 2012
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