Research On The Visual Paradigm Of Japanese "I" Photography

Japan's postwar photography has attracted great attention in the world with its unique aesthetic ideology.Photographers,such as Masahisa Fukase,Araki Nobuyoshi,and Gocho Shigeo,have successfully established an important school of "I photography" in the history of Japanese photography,which has maintained a continuous vitality.Japanese "I photography" turns the viewing angle to the things they love in their daily life,and integrates their mood into the photos with continuous gaze.The photographer captures the relationship with the subject and their own heart,and takes the micro vibration generated by the subjective gaze,and constructs an ambiguous invisible space to expose the real self,while inviting the viewer to explore their own reality Inside.This paper defines the connotation of Japanese "I photography" from three aspects of "heavy private daily record","emotional release of self exposure" and "visual transformation of emotional relationship",compares and analyzes the similarities and differences with documentary photography and human body concept photography,explores the historical context of Japanese private photography production,and discusses the impact of social thoughts,Japanese aesthetics and other aspects on it This paper interprets the visual rhetoric features of Japanese "I photography" from two aspects of "haiku style visual narration" and "hidden visual tension",discusses the artistic context of Japanese "I photography" from two aspects of "art and psychology" and "individual and society",and analyzes and looks forward to the development of private photography at present and in the future.The author believes that Japanese "I photography" presents the real feelings and subjective understanding of the world with the unique Japanese aesthetic image language,and in thecontemporary complex artistic context,"I photography" also actively seeks for links with the outside world.The use of traditional technology and multi-media provides more possibilities to show the photographer's abstract psychological world.