Research On "conceptual Photography" In China For 1978-2000 Years

"Conceptual photography" in 1990 s China occurred mainly in the field of contemporary art,the artist uses photography as a reference to the concept of art media creation as the core,although the influence by the western "concept of photography",but because of the different context,the development and the inherent trajectory and the West have different characteristics.The emergence of "concept photography" in China in 90 s is related to the social and cultural changes in China,the failure of existing art forms,and directly related to the development of conceptual art in the same period.Actually,the practice is to solve the internal problems of contemporary art.But "concept photography" is not only the only art phenomenon in the field of contemporary art,but its origin and development are related to the field of traditional photography.After the cultural revolution,photography began to establish the practice of "Modernity",and its inner part was different from two roads,that is,the deepening of realism and the practice of new photography.The former insists on the objectivity of the photography reproduction principle,emphasize photography on social participation;the latter is a kind of modern nature photography practice,began to pursue photography "conceptual" exploration and subjectivity of photography intervention,opened the way for diversified development of photography,but this is still a collective expression of ideology.Due to the transformation of Chinese social and cultural scene in the late 1980 s,the "new trend photography" in 80 s failed in the new context,and objectivity "documentary photography" became the mainstream.Change the historical context,the individual consciousness is emphasized in the consumerism society,contemporary art in concept art as the representative of the avant-garde art forms at the same time,the existing "documentary photography" in the face of the new reality is weak,"the concept of photography is the art in the concept of" idea "and the internal logic of the development of photography in the era of transition and under produced.This paper is mainly to study the 2000 "conceptual photography" in 1978,the construction of China in photography history,combing its linear development at the same time,the analysis of early photography from the concept of "exploring the relationship between practice and" conceptual photography ",in order to locate its value in history." The concept of photography is art experiment Chinese contemporary new context,to re-establish relationship with self,society and reality,on the basis of " conceptual photography " appear various types of experiments,this paper will be divided into: according to the theme of photography and traditional aesthetic behavior,modern transformation,the classic picture imitation and appropriation,self-identity cognition,visual elements of popular culture and consumer misappropriation of social criticism,urban landscape and social reflection.The early "concept photography" has the elite color for the personal experience and the subjective expression.The concept photography form originally modeled on the western style lacks language construction,which made the crisis in the late 90 s under the influence of the global market.Therefore,"returning to reality" has become the trend after 2000."Concept photography" began to draw lessons from documentary photography.Based on the practice in 90 s,it began to involve more extensive cultural aspects,deeper personal cultural criticism and social introspection.