# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lang-jingshan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:00:33.203Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lang-jingshan"
name: "Lang Jingshan"
slug: "lang-jingshan"
description: "Lang Jingshan, also romanized as Long Chin-san and Lang Ching-shan, was a pioneering photographer and one of the first Chinese photojournalists. He has been called \"indisputably the most prominent figure in the history of Chinese art photography\", and the \"Father of Asian Photography\". He joined the Royal Photographic Society in 1937 and gained his Associateship in 1940 and Fellowship in 1942. and in 1980, the Photographic Society of America named him one of the world's top ten master photographers. He was the first Chinese photographer to take artistic nude shots, and was also known for the unique \"composite photography\" technique he created."
tagline: "Chinese photojournalist (1892–1995)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lang_Jingshan_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1892-08-04"
deathDate: "1995-04-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.07
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.160765333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/longchinsan"
    handle:    "longchinsan"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%83%8E%E9%9D%9C%E5%B1%B1"
    title: "郎靜山"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC_%DA%86%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "لانج چينجشان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lang_%C5%A4ing-%C5%A1an"
    title: "Lang Ťing-šan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lang_Jingshan"
    title: "Lang Jingshan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lang_Jingshan"
    title: "Lang Jingshan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B3_%D0%A7%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Лонг Чинсан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lang_T%C4%A9nh_S%C6%A1n"
    title: "Lang Tĩnh Sơn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q73460"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump