Aesthetic Interpretation Of The Pulitzer Prize For News Photography And Cultural Criticism

Hailed as the Nobel Prize, the news photography of Pulitzer Prize covers all aspects of human life by its rich content and special art form. From the perspective of aesthetics and culture, this paper first reveals that the entire suffering embodied in Pulitzer Prize roots in the limited nature of humanity, and then reflects on the road to salvation.In the aesthetic interpretation manifesting subject of misery, by contrast similarities and differences between painting and photography, this paper uses typical capture moment of painting for reference to make up for the shortcomings of photography and enhance the aesthetic expression. As a visual culture, news photography expand aesthetic subject and enhance the overall aesthetic consciousness, however, the simulacrum environment inevitably leads to superficiality of people's aesthetic judgment, and then warns people concerned about the cultural ecological crisis. Finally, the news photograph has potentially practiced the operating mechanism of ideology and has implied the entanglement of aesthetics and politics, which benefits our understanding of the underlying factors behind the award.