The Research About The Popularity And Development Of The Grass-roots Photography In The Internet Age

Into the21st century, society is the Reading Pictures Age. Photography has a nearly200-yearhistory and made a great contribution to recording the change of human society. But it is the first timethat has been respected to such a high position. The rapid development of Internet technology is thesolid foundation of society entered the Reading Pictures Age, which makes the image informationdissemination and the audience to accept the image information change dramatically, and then growingup a new form of photographic expression-grass-roots photography. In the recent years, grass-rootsphotography has gradually become a popular trend, which is founding the influence day by day. Thereare so many different kinds of online works on the internet.This article attempts to explore the current, popular photographic form of expression-the processand development of grass-roots photography, as well as the specific reasons and meaning of grass-rootsphotography’s popularity. This paper mainly the cause and reason of popularity of grass-rootsphotography from some aspects of the cultural change of the pattern, the intervention of the networkmedia, the development of science and technology, and mass psychology. It also classifies its visualrepresentation and concludes its main features. Meanwhile, it discusses the influences and differencesbetween grass-roots photograph and professional photograph. In the end, this article mainly analysis thepositive and negative influences of grassroots photography to the society and grass-roots photograph’sfuture development.According this article, we can know something about grassroots photography background, culturalenvironment, the visual form and so on. And as an artistic photograph form, grass-roots photograph ispopular. Although the quality of art is not all perfect, we can not ignore the value of its existence. Ourattention not only focuses on the artistic quality, but also observes its influences to the social andcontemporary by using the overall development vision.