A Study Of The Style And Expression Of Salgado's Documentary Photography

The documentary is an essential attribute of photography that was destined to have since its birth.From the traditional to the contemporary,the formal features of documentary photography have been constantly changing in this century-old historical trend.Brazilian photographer Sebastian Salgado insisted on using documentary photography to represent the world's most authentic wars,sufferings and nature since he entered the field of photography.The essence of his works was an artistic photographic style.The touching,edifying or pleasure brought about shocked every viewer's heart,which was the result of the perfect fusion of the content and form of documentary photography.The author believes that the social value of documentary photography is of course the first.If the artistic expression and aesthetic characteristics of the works are missing,they cannot strengthen their “expression” and touch the mind of the “primary audience”.This paper analyzes the style and form characteristics of Salgado's documentary photography,and demonstrated the importance of formal aesthetics in documentary photography.The first part of the paper describes the experience of documentary photography in a certain context of the times and change,introduced an important figure in documentary style of photography triggered a wide range of events and theoretical basis for the use of this form of artistic expression Salgado leads to profound The photography style of the humanistic theme service.The second part briefly introduces Salgado's photography experience,and interprets his natural photographic works' praise for nature and life and the spirit of humanistic care he contains.The third part enumerates the techniques and aesthetic features of Salgado's representative works of modeling language,and conducts in-depth research on this,expounding in detail the instantaneous,spatial structure,and the use of light and shadow in the works to use the photographic language in the works.The analysis of the artistic features of the aesthetic object and the argumentation of its aesthetic value and the artistic role of its artistic expression on the humanistic theme serve as a basis for demonstrating the aesthetic significance of documentary photography under the context of contemporary artistic diversity.The last part of the article describes the effects of Salgado's photographic philosophy and style of contemporary documentary photography documentary photography,hope can help the theoretical study and practical experience of contemporary documentary photography through discussions on this subject,and thus Based on the current situation of contemporary documentary photography,thinking and suggestions.