The Social Value Research About Xie Hai Long And Lu Guang’s Documentary Images

Social documentary photography takes real style of shooting to record the issues existing in society. Record of phenomenon from the photographer, as a person in society, reflects a kind of active form of social reality. Like the other narrative symbols, visual narration of documentary video is a straightaway narrative language without borders. Its unique narrative style is thought-provoking and can help people with their comprehension towards the realities and the issues in society. Through recording the truth of the event, it would lead the media to spread and attract the audiences to think, which will attract people’s attention to the special groups, realize the final aim of changing the present status, push the governments to formulate the related policies, promote to reform the current systems and affect the decision of the national policy. In a sense, the power of documentary can change people’s fate, record the history, promote the construction of state system and society development as well.The Hope Project of Xie Hailong contains the love oriented, and love foremost feelings of shooting of the author. The video has included the care for the children, who desire to study. Through the spread of the media, the Hope Project is paid much attention by society. The "Big Eyes" shot by Xie Hailong lightens the under-developed education situation in rural area, bringing new hope for children in rural area to realize their dreams. Xie Hailong records the beautiful desire of children towards reading. His video works move hundreds of thousands of kind hearts, enabling children in rural areas in poverty to change their fate. Lu Guang shoots the social documentary from the perspective of "free man" and observes the artistic property of "documentary" works in society. His works presents strong sense of social responsibility, while his distinctive perspective and originality as well as extraordinary willpower enable him to win wide attention among the domestic photography field and media. His works reflect the hot, difficult and focus issues in contemporary society, focus on a series of documentary theme reflecting the dark side of society like environmental pollution and going deep into AIDS villages, bring many thoughts to people and are evocative.Though the reading for the Xie Hailong’s video of the Hope Project and analysis of the Lu Guang’s work, this article proves the social meaning of documentary and the large social effects caused by this.