The Contribution Of Digital Imaging To The Study Of Art History

Nowadays,the value of photography becoming more and more important in its 150 yearsf development.Today,the pictures produced in one day are even more then the sum ofall photos took throughout the 100 years of nineteenth century.Photographs are growingmore rapidly and universally.Photography today is more than just a medium of eye:extension but more becoming our way of seeing.When discussing about the value ofphotography,we often mention it with the past,how much we look forward to the future,how much we missing the passing time.So called-" Past is as brand new as the future".And part of those that passed in the past have been preserved in material form until now,more of them frozen on the historical scale,and some were photographed indirectly savedin the form of photos to the present;From historical images,we not only see the material,events,we also see the attitude.The thing we kept is always what we want to keep andwhat we see is always what we desire to see' Photography has become a tool ofdocumentation in early archaeological work,When the moment captured the momentartifacts,photographs have become an indirect heritage of cultural relics,this is the timeheritage of cultural relics,can also be seen as historical value of cultural relics.Due to thelimitations of early photography techniques,only pictures of artifacts that wereconsidered important by the time and worth taking were taken.The moment when culturalrelics was captured,photographs have become an indirect heritage of cultural relics,thisis the time heritage of cultural relics,could also be seen as historical value of culturalrelics.Due to the limitations of early photography techniques,artifacts only taken whenwere considered important and worth taken.It shows us the multidimensional value ofphotographic images as a means of viewing in today's archeological work,from recordingthe past,reconstructing the past,presenting the past,and so on.Photos of historicalartifacts are studied in a non-contact way.The purpose of this paper is to study howphotographic images can reshape the past in digital humanistic archeology and howvaluable they are to digital humanities.Reshape our daily life by reshaping the past,affecting people's attitudes toward history in nowadays.