1900年9月21日出生于江苏省沭阳县。1919年考入上海美术专科学校,接受正规的绘画基本训练。1920年在校学习期间,用三块银元买了一台勃朗宁方匣式旧照相机,开始自学摄影。1935年在上海与许幸之联合举办第一次个人“绘画、摄影展”。拍摄影片《风云儿女》。拍摄了中国第一部音乐喜剧片《都市风光》。摄影作品有:《呐喊》、《侧目而视》等。1936年 September 21, 1900 was born in Shuyang County, Jiangsu Province. In 1919 admitted to the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, to accept the basic training of formal painting. During his studies in school in 1920, he purchased a Browning square-box old camera with three silver dollars and began to study photography by himself. In 1935 in Shanghai and Xu Xingzhi jointly organized the first personal “painting, photography exhibition.” Filming “Stormy children.” Photographed China’s first music comedy “cityscape.” Photographs are: “shout”, “side-looking” and so on. 1936