Though Lang witnessed war and brutality in one of China's most turbulent and tragic eras, these experiences never effaced the love that the traditional Chinese literati always held for the beautiful landscape. Thus, with a product of Western technology in hand, he embarked on an effort-conditioned by his own cultural learning and by the model of the Chinese landscape painting-to create composite images of different landscapes separated by space and time.
而經歷中國最動盪的時代，看盡戰亂中的殘山剩水，他也無法抹去千年來已然活在中國文人畫家心中的永恆山水，如此終於使他藉助西方的攝影工具，運用自己深厚的文化涵養，將中國山水畫的構圖方式，巧妙的把不同地域與時空的景物結合，發展出集錦攝影。