Talk About Photography

Photography was born in1839, more than a century, people have never stopped to explore the photographic properties. Photography was once thought to be the art of "handyman", and then become the preferred expression of many artists. Photography in the proportion of part of the contemporary art is also growing, today, no one seems to have questioned the art of photography. In the past, the highest goal seems to be to make photographers photography and painting, sculpture, as can be on an equal footing to become art. But now we have found, photographic functions and people far beyond the use of photography as an art of its application, particularly with the development of digital technology, networks and mobile phones,"photography is an art," comes a new debate. The main purpose of this paper is to photography as an art questioned this view, combined with the impact of photography and photographic history of the development of human life, concluded that photography can be used as a means of artistic creation, but we should give new meaning to photography-a kind of communication behavior.From a technical point of view, the essence of photography is the interception of objective things, and did not "create" is a visual record of a life. It was also said digital post-play technology to provide a space for photographers, creative photographer desired picture, but in the process, it is no longer doing photography but painting. In the end what is photography, photography is not art, what kind of a new definition of photographic properties should be given, above all contents of this article.