"April Photography Salon" Photography Art Value Research

Invention of photography history is not long, especially for China, under theinfluence of the new culture movement fully draw lessons from foreign culture and art,photography as a new art form, gradually developed in the country. But owing tohistorical reasons known to all, in a period of time photography became the tool forpolitical services. As a prelude to pull open the reform and opening to the outside world,a new generation of photographers began their exploration."April shadow will" is thefirst non-governmental organizations."Nature, society and people" art exhibition, in1979the first of the concept of "art for art’s sake" by1981the third exhibition ofphotographic images of ideas and social reality and so on are the different degree ofexploration, some of the later is more and more clear photo to pick to open the veinhead from here. Today look back the mental change s photography works of art,research on its artistic value, collating of data mining, from the perspective of artisticvalue that the creation of the language, for the photographer shoots analysisclassification technique, creative spirit, from these good works, not only to see thephotographers of art form, technique of expression, emotion expression and socialhumanistic care of exploration and practice. Can also be seen on their ideas forward andstrong social. Study the photographic works of art at the time of exploring innovative artlanguage of "aesthetic" aesthetic value; To express themselves and to make the idea ofvalue innovation; To witness history, to participate in the social process of social values.Such artistic value beyond the aesthetic level of the work itself, but more is that itexpresses the pioneer spirit. Mr Photography critic BaoKun said:"art, means innovation,revolution and rupture, rebellion, was thought and wisdom of the game"."April shadowwill" photographic works of art at the time it is for us the spirit of art. And then thinkabout the artistic spirit of concept of Chinese contemporary photography art, andinspired the development of documentary photography art.