The Study On Documentary Photography And Its Spreading Via Microblogging Platform

Documentary Photography also being called social documentary photography, is a kind of photography arising form the Life, one magazine of the American in1936. It is one static or dynamic image that focused by photography institution, organization or photographer for long term. The theme of Documentary Photography, schemed, interviewed, photographed and edited by the photography institution, organization or photographer, has the political, economic, civilizational,social and historical meaning. The Documentary Photography, recording the history, inflecting today, and being the real evidence of the future, has an epochal character. Its most classical photography activity is the Federal Security Administration(FSA) plan. In1980s, the concept of Documentary Photography, translated and introduced to China by translators of Shaozhong Lin, Huimin Wang, etc.. Over the30years’development, it has been given the new idea by Chinese theorist and practitioner. Meanwhile, the spread of Documentary Photography, being from prohibition, forwarded to opening-up. And from the traditional way of photo exhibition, picture album to internet, mobile and the other new media way.Microblog as an interactive platform of information spreading and sharing, owning the function of wording, picture and video. It is in time and rapid on information sharing, and has powerful influence. So the documentary photography has went on the platform of Microblog, continuing its function of joining and intervene to the life. On the new platform, the spreading subject, contents, media, way, audiences and effect of the Documentary Photography has prominent change. The elements of the change has its advantage and disadvantage, and exists opportunity and threat. Therefore, it urgent and necessary to organically study and analyze the changing and come up with the specific countermeasures accordingly.With the continuous development of social economy and media technology, Documentary Photography, presents its image in people’s life with new spreading way. So on a macro level, the summery analyzing on the direction of the spreading for Documentary Photography after the appearance of Weibo, has important guiding significance for the spreading and development of the Documentary Photography.