"Urban Expression":Documentary Photography Of Urban Theme

Chinese documentary photography in the1980s ushered in the " spring", not only in line with Chinese characteristics has been explored in the academic progress, but also in recording, performance, lineage have a new change, new breakthroughs, new development. And the city as many political, economic, cultural, demographic and other gathering places, the theme of urban documentary photography gradually into people’s vision. Thus, the "urban expression " has gradually become an important way to show the city. Photographers, media reporters, the public gradually began to use pictures and other documentary approach to reflect a mix of the city, recording the specific changes in the social development process, revealing the problems caused by urbanization, the living conditions of marginalized urban focus groups and so on, this direct, convenient, and visual means to have a sense of the scene has been recognized by the community, and to spread the use of open.The term "urban expression " from Fudan University School of Journalism and Communication, the famous documentary photographer, photography critic curator Gu Zheng "urban expression," a book, but also refers specifically to the theme of urban photography. With the gradual popularization and development of documentary photography, urban photography theme of propaganda from a single three-dimensional perspective to change, to transform the city from an objective record of performance, the transition from the material to the spiritual pursuit of life, from the content to the pursuit of a single city shift change. And with the use of language changes in urban documentary photography, mobile phones, microblogging, letters and other diverse media, prompting the kind of photography along with urbanization movement, memories of the city, urban aesthetic, urban space has also undergone a significant cognitive changes, which research and dissemination of news in the field is also closely related. The study of urban documentary photography, the news media can not only provide researchers grasp urbanization information, means of communication studies in the field of urban public records provide the basis for real scene, it became advantageous to integrate social resources, urban development track record objectively solve the city one of the necessary means of development issues and promoting the healthy and orderly development of the city.A city needs a record, an album, but need some memories. In this thesis, the capital city of Hefei, Anhui Province as an example, Metropolis" Hefei Evening News," the documentary photography column "fast lens" as the entry point, sort of nearly401years of photography, systematic and comprehensive analysis of the text from the start from communication, sociology, psychology point of view, a comprehensive and thorough the column content, topics, layout, title, and other characteristics were statistics, readjustment, inductive analysis, documentary photography and urbanization, documentary photography and the relationship between memories of the city carried out a detailed analysis elaborated by the context of the development of documentary photography collate and analyze the content of foreign documentary photography contrast, urban documentary photography case analysis, layer by layer illustrates the theme of urban documentary photography features, functions, meaning, as well as deficiencies that currently exist, and thus more complete, specific, sort out and explore the relationship between the city and documentary photography system, and then found the problem currently facing the class photography and the meaning and role of modern documentary photography.This paper is divided into four parts. The first part is mainly from the domestic to the city as a theme to start development of documentary photography, focuses on the emergence, development of Chinese documentary photography, and tease out the features and functions of the city as a theme presented in documentary photography. The second part is " Hefei Evening News " and " Fast Mirror " column, for example, in the2010-2013carding nearly four years on the basis of documentary photography, shooting from the content, subject, title, layout, etc. and discussion the theme of the relationship between the city of Hefei between documentary photography and do in-depth discussion. The third part is a continuation of the analysis of the relationship between the city and the documentary photography, documentary photography and urbanization, documentary photography and the memories of the city two themes in-depth analysis, trying to show a new perspective between urban and documentary photography relationship. The fourth part is the cause of the current theme of documentary photography progressive development of the city were analyzed one by one, to be parsed from the main reason for the root causes, the main influencing factors. Finally, the theme is a reflection of China’s documentary photography class, the other hand the current status of the development of documentary photography, missing from commercial interests, consumer bottom, mainstream values, the loss of geographical and cultural characteristics, social interaction is not strong enough depth work on specific issues such as comprehensive the lack of thorough and revealing existing problems through analysis and discussion summarized, the theme of the new situation and the development of urban documentary photography to face new problems, new pressures to elaborate, so as to promote the rapid development of urban documentary photography, also for the record of social development, master social public opinion, to solve the problems of urbanization and so provide a reference.