Research On The Photography Styles Of U.S. Magnum Photos

Magnum Photos advocates realistic style in its photo-taking works. It emphasizes the reflection of the objective world, pays attention to the real living facts of human-beings. Magnum Photos understands and respects its photo-taking object, it snapshots the scene, and do not fabricate or magnify it. Therefore, the photos of Magnum Photos hold the same characteristics of documentary works.Nowadays, people are surrounded in a world of images, and the fabricated images like advertising, television, DV, VCD etc. are also deluged. More and more people understand the cultural phenomena by images. With the coming of the post-industry society, digital processing techniques of information used in traditional photography, film, voice-recording, and impels the birth of Network, make the production and communication of fabricated culture reach a high level. The renovation of digital images changes the cultural value system.Under the background of informationization and globalization, Magnum Photos'traditional photo-taking concepts are threatened by the technique innovation, and the digital techniques also affect and change the unborn direction of the press photography. Fist of all, press photography becomes the most active communication method in news media. Good photo with the characteristic of concision can be understood at a glance, this improves the speed and efficiency of communication. Photography breaks the language barrier and meets the need of cross-cultural communication. Second, the digitalization of image provides the photographer an opportunity, it breaks the monopoly of the media and provides technique supports. Third, the photo-taking art gains much development. The image used in news media leads the form of the media much more diversified. Forth, the individuation and diversity of photography style becomes a trend in press photo-taking. Young-generation photographers have their unique thoughts, methods and insights, photos taken by them are full of individualized characteristics and can not be imitated by others.