From Phenomenon To Essence: Analysis Of China's New Documentary Photography Practic

Since photography was introduced to China,documentary photography has played an important role in the history of Chinese photography because of its unique "recordability","social significance" and "historical value".As the concept of new documentary photography entered China at the end of the 20 th century,on the basis of the continuous reflection of itself and the photography system by Chinese local photographers,theorists,and critics,a large number of outstanding photographers and new photographers that have attracted much attention at home and abroad Documentary photography,so what exactly is new documentary photography? Starting from this issue,this article combines various Chinese local works to explore the various phenomena and characteristics of "new documentary photography".The specific research content will be developed from the following three parts.1.The origin and evolution of the new documentary photography-mainly to study the origin of the concept of the new documentary photography and its development process,intending to sort out its development context.Due to the differences between Chinese and Western cultures and societies,the development path of new documentary photography in China is unique.Especially at the end of the 20 th century,documentary photography and conceptual photography penetrated each other,making Chinese folks spontaneously appear many very interesting phenomena.These phenomena all reflect the exploration of new documentary photography language by local photographers.Second,the development of new documentary photography in China-to study and sort out the various phenomena produced by the new documentary photography in China since the21 st century,to explore the classic cases among them,and to further think about the new documentary photography After integrating and analysing some phenomena related to the new documentary photography in contemporary China,the author sorted out the development of the new documentary photography in China..New streetism photo 2.Road photography 3.Landscape typology photography 4.Private photography.3.The image features of the new documentary photography-to study the phenomena and characteristics of various Chinese new documentary photography,combined with various domestic documentary photography cases for further demonstration and analysis.At present,the emergence of new documentary photography has broken the monopoly of original traditional documentary photography on documentary photography.However,because new documentary photography has always caused controversy,this article combs and analyzes the work of traditional Chinese documentary photography and new documentary photography.In summary,we strive to present the characteristics of new documentary photography images in a smart way.Although "new documentary photography" is still a developing thing,this article hopes to look at the essence of the phenomenon at the current stage,make a combing analysis for it,and feedback it to my personal creative concept and practice method.Documentary photographers provide a genealogical path for reference.