Aesthetic Study Of Chinese Documentary Photography

Since introduced into China one hundred and seventy years ago,documentary photography,as an important visual culture form, always affects and conveys Chinese modernity cultural experience. But compared with the mature western discourse of documentary photography, China documentary photography is relatively deficient in systematic discourse construction.This paper mainly discusses the development of documentary photography in China, finding out the aesthetic characteristic of Chinese documentary photography in the analysis of different periods.With methods of the aesthetics, cultural studies, sociology and political interpretation, this paper constructs a framework of the aesthetic features of Chinese documentary photography and tries to reveal the aesthetic value of documentary photography in China, so as to analysis and summary the practical significance of Chinese documentary photography in the contemporary society.This article is divided into four chapters, the second and the third chapter are the emphasis.The first chapter introduced documentary photography’s origin and change in Europe,the mature development in USA, and the development after introduced into China.The second chapter focuses on the analysis of the change of documentary photography in China. In the grand narrative form, experienced the China social turning period, documentary photography turned to the humanistic thinking perspective.The third chapter: Criticizing the Chinese modernity problem by recording the "vulnerable groups" and "edge condition",Chinese documentary photography turned from humanism aesthetic feature to the peak period of criticism.The fourth chapter: in the first ten years of the new century, conceptual photography integrated with documentary photography. Taking landscape photography and private photography as example, this chapter discusses the theoretical thinking of Chinese new century documentary photography.