Hou Dengke's View On Documentary Photography. Documentary Photography View And Its Practice

Since silver edition tomography was born in 1839,photography is endowed with social function,Hou Dengke as pioneer of Chinese documentary photography and flag characters,as the change in contemporary China,especially in the Chinese contemporary rural society of profound inner and outer change left behind the precious record.In the early days of new China,the development of photography was restricted by the concept and environment,and most of the works were pictures of political propaganda around "false big and empty".With the development of the third plenary session,in such aspects as politics,economy and culture in China are in the development of photography emerged a large number of photography pioneer group,such as stars art exhibition,April shadow will be.The rise of the pioneer team provides more possibilities for contemporary photography,but limited to the then social background and the lack of theoretical support,and they too much pursuit of aestheticism in the photography practice expression,the photography concept of "art for art’s sake," finally deviated from the original intention of early record society,history,makes the documentary photography salon,greatly hindered the development of Chinese documentary photography.It is in such an environment,"shaanxi photography group headed by Hou Dengke awakening,they openly criticize the idea of "direct graphical model",advocate using camera to record the daily life of the people,he is engaged in the process of image to witness the localization photography art photography from political propaganda tool to the whole process of the transition.This paper mainly focuses on the documentary value of Hou Dengke photography,and with its as the breakthrough point,through the analysis of the photographic works of art style and technique of expression,to analysis the creative ways and then taken psychology;At the same time,it can help us to understand more deeply the Hou Dengke photography works of documentary photography played a role in the development of China,and based on the perspective of contemporary documentary photography of Hou Dengke thought still has what can draw lessons from of place,and there are some limitations which aspects.