What is a photo?

Portrait refers to art photography, commonly known as art photo album, and can also refer to photos.

But like the original definition, photos strive to achieve the realm of "truth". Therefore, many commercial photos, as well as some superficial, empty and connotative photos, have been seriously retouched for the sake of "flawless appearance". Although they are also called portraits, they have already run counter to the original intention of portraits.

Portrait, the original meaning in Chinese is to draw portraits of people, which is the traditional name of figure painting in China. Painting a portrait requires simplicity, so it is called a portrait. Du Fu's poem "Dan Qing presents General Cao": "The general is good at painting to cover the gods, and what he shows is not just the horse, but the life of a good man."

The photos that are popular now are borrowed from Japanese. As we all know, the Japanese still use 1850 commonly used Chinese characters and a large number of Chinese characters composed of these Chinese characters. Among them, many Chinese words already have the meanings given by the Japanese. In Japanese, portrait has two meanings. One is photography, the other is photography. A photo studio in Japan is called a photo studio.

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Portrait, the original meaning in Chinese is to draw portraits of people, which is the traditional name of figure painting in China. Painting a portrait requires simplicity, so it is called a portrait. Du Fu's poem "Dan Qing presents General Cao": "The general is good at painting to cover the gods, and what he shows is not just the horse, but the life of a good man."

The photos that are popular now are borrowed from Japanese. As we all know, the Japanese still use 1850 commonly used Chinese characters and a large number of Chinese characters composed of these Chinese characters. Among them, many Chinese words already have the meanings given by the Japanese. In Japanese, portrait has two meanings. One is photography, the other is photography. A photo studio in Japan is called a photo studio.

However, although Japan endowed the photos with meaning, it retained the original intention of "striving for truth". The general style of Japanese photography is like natural gestures, light makeup, dynamic snapshots and slight post-decoration. In other countries, it will be removed by cosmetic modification or later retouching, but in Japan, it is not interested in covering up these flaws.