The Contemporary Heritage Of Early Photography

Photography has been moving ahead in case of change of technology since itwas invented.It experienced the stages of prime Daguerreotype,miscellaneousoperation of wet-plate collodion process,carrying a large amount of shootingequipment and miniaturization of film camera till digital camera appeared.Peoplebasically get rid of technical constraints and presently mobile shooting hardlyneeds to master some professional skill for easily realizing shot.Photography entered China very early.But real popularization started in theearly 20th century,which is different from Europe&US.Not long after invention ofphotography,with the wet-plate process popularized,photography soon entereddaily consumption field.Due to the popularization of photography,photographyculture and industry of the mid-19th century have rapid development.Businesscard photo and stereoscopic viewer prevailed in civilian consumption field at thattime,which also promoted production of photography culture.Meanwhile,therewere more attempts in scientific photography and artistic photography.productionof "photogram" makes photography formally set foot on the art road.Using imagingdiversity of silver halide began to independent of gate of art slowly and formed asan independent art category.Now artistry of photography is no longer questioned.The" photogram imaging" property of the early photography technology playedan important impellent role on form of photography art.now in the moment ofdigital popularization,the reduction of technology difficulty makes more peoplebegin to look backward at early technology in photography history on the contraryand explore slowly charm of early photography.Research of photography historyand technology also gradually looks back upon the value of this history.The old shooting process and the uncontrollability of chemical bring differentpicture texture with present digital technology.Handwork sense and artistic valuepresented by early photography are slowly paid attention to by innovators,todaywith contemporary photography creation technique more diversified,Chinesephotography also will gradually complete the lost culture and lost technologyhistory.The first chapter gives probable summary of early technology and combschemical property of silver salt&light and "photogram imaging" which become thebeginning of photography art.The second chapter expands from the aspects ofearly artists’ exploration and modern inheritance;introduces inheritance anddevelopment of Daguerreotype,wet-plate process and photogram imaging oncontemporary artists’ creation.The third chapter researches 10 years course anddevelopment path of early photography in China;states opportunity and challengefaced by Chinese photography.