The Gestalt Analysis Of The Press Photography

4Gestalt Psychology, also known as Wanxing Psychology in China, is a school of psychology that appeared in 1912 in Germany. It developed three theories on vision and perception: the relationship between the whole and segment, the theory of graphics and background, the theory of field. These theories are consistent with the way of vision communication what the press photography depends on, so they could be applied into the study of the press photography.On the basis of the three theories of Gestalt Psychology, this paper mainly focus on the formation process of the press photo gestalt, the relationship between the whole and segment of the choice of press photo moment, the weigh of "graphics and background" on the photo image, the picture description makes the Photo Journalism's and Photo Editor's "psychological field and physical field" reach agreement, and then achieve the purpose of information dissemination. Based on these, this paper also combines some issues on the press photography, including the direction and technical processing when uptaking the press photo moment, neglecting the background in photographic image, and the falsing when writing picture description. This paper analyses these problems from the theoretical point of view, with a view that this kind of rational thinking can breakthrough the emotional description about the press photography in the past, and with a view of seeking the theoretical support behind the technical operations.