Seeking The Image Value Of Folk Photography Through The Winning Works Of "Human Contribution Award"

Folk photography is a new category of photography, it was formally establisheduntil1993, and quickly accepted by the public. Although there is only21years sinceit was formally established, but its develop speed is to be reckoned with. The mainphoto way is documentary for folk photography like documentary photography, butthe academic of folk photography is stronger. It requires that the folk photographyworker should have relevant theoretical knowledge of ethnology, folklore, history,anthropology…etc. As well as to be familiar with the creation rules of folkphotography. It has broad social significance, through the expression of image, itlefts precious visual information for the country’s rescue work of intangible culturalheritage, and these precious folk image data can be widely applied to social studieswith very high value. So this thesis takes the image value as the theme by explorethe folk photography, using the winning works in “human contribution award” holdby China folk photograhpy association to illustrate the image value of folkphotograhpy.The article is divided into six partsThe introduction and first chapter are the interpretation of folk custom, thehistorical background of folk photography and the preliminary carding anddiscussion for its development.The second chapter mainly elaborated the creation rules of folk photography, ituses documentary as the basis photography category, but because of the photographysubjects is the folk customs matters, base on this point, there is a big difference forcreation of folk photography and other documentary photography. The expressionand creation methods of folk photography are all about folklores, so this articleillustrate the expression and creation method respectively.The third chapter is a key part of the article, mainly from the image value offolk photography, respectively discusses the folk photography brought about by thesocial value, aesthetic value, historical data value and other angle as the breakthrough point, and using the winning works in “human contribution award” asthe illustration, states the social value brought by folk photography.The fourth chapters and epilogue part, mainly summarize the changes under thebackground of global cultural and the development prospect of folk photography.This article takes the social influence bring by folk photography image as thestarting point, and revolves around the value of folk photography image to the fulltext.