The Research On Street Snap

Traditional street snap is a typical style of documentary photography. But in the late20th centuryand the first decade of the21st century, it evolved into a brand new word, as the need of delivering civilfashion information became urgent.This paper uses documentary photography as a breakthrough point, goes into details of thehistory of street snap. From topology investigation to photojournalism, social documentary and fashionphotography, the development of street snap came through a long exploration. Since it is a brand newconcept, it is necessary to analyze every aspect of street snap. This paper narrated the subjects, the typesand the propagation modes of street snap.Because of the spiritual need of normal people, street snap became popular in the PostImage-reading Era. The enthusiastic participation of participants and the marketing profit are twoimportant factors which stimulated the fast development of street snap.The mainly social function of street snap is to bring business opportunities to the participants, thepropagators, and the fashion manufacturers. Its influence on fashion is obvious to all. And it hasconsiderably encouraging effect upon the creative work of art.As street snap developed very fast, it brought up many drawbacks. The mode of itself makes it verydifficult to get new inspiration. And the means of taking photos makes it easily involved in some ethicaland legal problems. How to solve these problems is also one part of this paper.