The artistic aesthetics of photographic works depends on whether there are photos or not.

The artistic beauty of photographic works depends on whether the photos have photographic beauty.

In nature and human society, material things can be expressed by value and exchange value. Specializing in the value of art, it will not have material use value, nor will it have commodity exchange value. Its value is an aesthetic value to meet people's aesthetic needs, and it also has certain cognitive value.

The aesthetic value of photography is a pure spiritual value.

In the process of survival and reproduction, people make all kinds of material, spiritual, natural and social creations to meet people's material and spiritual needs in order to realize the objectification of their own essential strength. The appearance of photographic works of art is an artistic creation that meets spiritual needs.

The Special Significance of Photography Aesthetics

Fundamentally speaking, photography is an investigation of human's essential strength, which is the aesthetic core of photography. In this examination of beauty, the aesthetics of photography is mainly embodied in cognitive beauty and creative beauty. In aesthetics, people divide the forms of beauty into two categories: realistic beauty and artistic beauty.

1, realistic beauty

Realistic beauty refers to the beauty that exists objectively in nature and the beauty in human social life. The beauty of reality is the beauty of cognition that we should strive to find and discover in the creation of photographic art.

In the process of understanding beauty, man is the discovery center of understanding beauty. We say that human beauty is the highest form of natural beauty and spiritual beauty is the highest form of social beauty. Therefore, in photography, how to find people is the highest pursuit of the beauty of photography, and it is also the main way for photography to express social life and social relations.

Another important aspect of photography's understanding of beauty is to look for beautiful forms and emotions in nature. Although the beauty of nature is due to the humanization of nature, there are too many natural beauty and things worth discovering again and again. It is on the basis of this discovery that the realistic beauty found in society and nature will be sublimated into artistic beauty after including the photographer's subjective spirit and aesthetic ideal.

The aesthetic creation activities of photography art, on the one hand, sublimate realistic beauty into artistic beauty through subjective aesthetic consciousness; On the one hand, through subjective aesthetic consciousness, what is not beautiful in reality is transformed into artistic beauty, which is all creative beauty in art.

The documentary nature of photography determines that photography can only directly absorb beauty from reality, but the beauty of reality is not equal to the beauty of art. Only by embodying the subjective spirit of the creative subject and the aesthetic ideal and law of beauty in society can it have aesthetic significance and value and sublimate into the beauty of photography.

2. Artistic beauty

Compared with artistic beauty, realistic beauty is scattered and insufficient, and needs to be sublimated into artistic beauty.

Ugliness in reality can only be transformed into artistic beauty by weakening its realistic temporal and spatial significance and infiltrating the aesthetic consciousness of the subject. Once reality ugliness enters aesthetic aesthetics, it embodies the essential power of human conquest, plays a role in contrasting beauty, and reveals the essence of social life from the opposite side. Aesthetic cognition, aesthetic emotion, aesthetic ideal and artistic emotion, as aesthetic consciousness, are social and a manifestation of social consciousness, but only when this consciousness is organically combined with the manifestation of photography art can the essential expression of photography art be formed.

Photography directly affects people's spirit, consciousness and emotion through its aesthetic response to social life, and ultimately affects social life.

Only by realizing the aesthetic value in photography can we realize the cognitive value and educational value of photography. Therefore, aesthetic value is the core value of photography and even all arts.