Explore The Narrative Characteristics Of Documentary Photography From The Perspective Of Time And Space

As a branch of photography,documentary photography begins with the basic narrative techniques of image narration.However,documentary photography is a recapitulation of reality,and it has its own independent technical support,which makes the narrative of documentary photography independent.The "instantaneous" mode of documentary photography and the complexity of time in narration constitute the uniqueness of documentary photography narration in time expression.The absolute authenticity and exact fuzziness of space in the narrative of documentary photography constitute the uniqueness of the narrative of documentary photography in spatial expression.Because time and space often interlace at the same time,the narrative of documentary photography has the comprehensive characteristics of "de-contextualization" in time and space.These characteristics provide a solid foundation for the independence of documentary photography narrative.However,as a new art,documentary photography has not existed for a long time,and there is still much room for development in technology and other aspects.The research on its narrative is also in the initial stage.The narrative of documentary photography still has many shortcomings because of its long development and relatively skilled narrative ratio.However,it also inspired photographers to actively learn from the text narrative,drawing useful experience from the form and content for documentary photography narrative.Photographers learn from literary narrative and use the methods of composition and close-up to make breakthroughs in narrative form.They gain inspiration for shooting theme by reading literary texts and make breakthroughs in narrative content.These breakthroughs are promoting the continuous development of documentary photography narrative and strengthening its independence.The independence of documentary photography narrative enables it to have an equal dialogue with literary narrative.With the increasing cooperation between writers and photographers nowadays,it is possible to explore the way of harmony,unity and complementarity between literary narrative and documentary photographic narrative.Such complementarity also urges photographers to think about how to expand the influence of the narrative characteristics of documentary photography when cooperating with other narrative forms.