The Analysis And Exploration On New Color Photography

In 1976, in American New York’s Modern Art Museum, the exhibition which curator John John Szarkowski planned and named<William Eggleston’s Guide>has brought to common people’s attention,and the original nameless photographer William · Eggleston became the focal point which the American photographic world gazed at over the night. This exhibition displayed all photographies in color, but this is the first time in history that color photography appearing in the art museum.This exhibition has become the milestone, for it announced the color photography time has arrival, and the color photography henceforth is perfectly justifiable to mounte the art stage as one kind of medium of the artistic photography.William Eggleston、Stephen Shore、Joel Sternfeld、Joel Meiyerowitz are the new color photography representatives. Their creative method is by no means consistent with esthetics style:For instance, south Eggleston favors the Robert Frank’s "non-decisiveness instantaneous" theory, persisting taking photographs in the shutter style with the 35mm camera; while Shore tends to gives the opinion more "recessivenessly", looking and recording American city scenery with the big picture camera calmly.But there is one thing that they are common in:They have abandoned ideology tendency that the traditional photography toward the public performance, not pursuing to narrate the world in photography greatly, but embarking from own experience, with the questioned and introspection manner, with the aid that has the expressive force in color to carry on photographic examining to the daily social landscape, promulgated the ambushed ordinaries under the ordinary social surface that the universal existence "has been unusual" in America--some kind of crisis, some kind of anxiety, some kind of distance......Therefore founded new direction of American or even the world photography performance.This thesis mainly deals with the background of the production trend of the color photography, the different intermediary material characteristic of black and white photography, the color photography condition before the new color photography current, the concrete analysis on the representative character’s work and esthetics style to the American new color photography current, with the senior photographer’s longitudinal style research, to the less advanced photographer’s influence, as well as this current to China. The key point of this thesis is the concrete analysis on the representative character’s work and esthetics style to the American new color photography current, with the senior photographer’s longitudinal style research, to the less advanced photographer’s influence, as well as this current to China.