A Study On The Rise And Artistic Features Of Contemporary Urban Photography

With the growing urbanization of contemporary China,the entire socio-economic levels speeds up rapidly. Urbanization brought us new things, new experiences and new ideas, brought people with high-quality modern life, at the same time, also brought the human many social problems what can not avoid and difficult to solve, others are global problems.The rise of contemporary urban photography in China are based on external and internal reasons, the external is the urbanization trend of human environment , the internal is needs of self-development within the photography.As information technology advances, frequent cultural exchanges between the contemporary world, the Chinese urban photography developed rapidly, showing a robust development trend. Subversion of the traditional urban photographer, breaking the old concept art, and artistic expression close look at urban society, making the city a strong photographic reality show character and have the post-modern means, which is the most significant contemporary urban photography features. In addition, the localization of urban photographer and academic, the novelty of theme and subject matter, and the integration of contemporary art and so are the distinctive features of contemporary urban photography. Contemporary urban photography have some disadvantages, such as lack of ideological depth, subject matter and theme of the limited nature of the homogenization, commercialization trends and so on, other works reveals the cultural needs of a tendency toward pessimism caused We are a high priority.Urban photography is facing a dynamic society, and plays an important social responsibility. The development of contemporary Urban Photography in future should be based on social reality, search for the value of urban photography in the human context,establish the value helpful of the establishment of China and individual,and strive to build a cultural construction that have a kind of aesthetic and the ultimate meaning, at the same time, that based on the reality.