Popular Photography In The Context Of Popular Culture

Popular photography plays a role of culture popularization which influences the mass level of culture absorbing and aesthetics.This paper firstly defines the range of mass culture and popular photography. Such definition of the core concept helps to find useful cases from huge amounts of popular photography works so as to enhance the persuasion of the paper and to grasp the intent of mass culture and popular photography from a holistic point of view. Then the paper extends the contents of mass culture to explore the research of the themes and forms popular photography and the positive and negative influences it receives from mass culture, putting it under the context of mass culture. From 1990', China enters an era with emergent art thoughts and art forms, and the popular photography also steps onto a new stage with its persistent development. With massive amounts of compitions, popular photography presents its prosperous life and also presents some problems to be solved immediately. The paper analyzes the problem of its ossification and finds its reasons from several points and analyzes the influence of mass culture on popular photography in detail. Then the paper analyzes salon photography as a distinctive case of mass culture, compares the different themes and forms and explore the huge gap between popular photography and photography as art.From the above comparison, the paper presents its issue: from the photography competition to photography exhibition. The paper analyzes the photography exhibition theoretically and explains its cultural and artistic meanings and the contribution it should make which contains the energy of popular photography. The paper hopes to indicate the development of popular culture and helps it to lay out its own force.The paper puts its emphasis on the research of popular photography and the discuss of the themes and forms of salon photography, which is based on relevant books, literature, critiques, writing online about popular photography and salon photography.