The Development Course of Photography Salon

At present, nearly 200 international film festivals recognized by FIAP (International Photographic Union) and PSA (American Photographic Society) are held around the world every year.

Since the 1920s, with the establishment of modern photography, photography has entered a stage of diversified development, showing amazing possibilities and deriving various uses and roles. From the perspective of aesthetic concept

Degree, salon photography can be understood as photo photography. However, salon photography, as a derivative of photography development, is one of the most widely participated photography games gradually formed with the popularization of photography.

With the popularization of photography, associations and organizations in various countries have a huge photographic population, and also hold international salon competitions and exhibitions regularly, gradually forming a set of operation modes of film competitions and exhibitions including selection rules. Due to the increasing degree of internationalization, the theme of salon photography is limited to the common experience of human vision: magnificent or exquisite scenery, beautiful women (especially human bodies), textured old people and naive children, and rare exotic customs in various places. With the historical origin of academic school and aestheticism, salon photography sometimes becomes a visual formula, and the significance of image or culture is rarely touched (even when shooting things of different cultures, salon photographers will pay more attention to the direction of curiosity), but this pursuit of aestheticism is easy to gain public recognition and love, so salon photography competitions and exhibitions are still the largest number of photography activities in the world.

Therefore, the salon photography we are talking about now refers to this kind of system which is relatively independent in subject matter, style, film competition, exhibition and operation mode, and is different from the mainstream art circle. Since the invention of photography 170 years, there have been countless uses and functions in modern society, and salon photography is one of them. Salon photography circles occasionally overlap with mainstream art circles, but most of them belong to two parallel systems except a few common members, which is the second understanding of salon photography.

Due to historical reasons, the understanding of salon photography in China has been unsatisfactory, and the research is relatively backward. In June 2008, Guangdong Photographers Association set up a salon photography unit at the sixth theoretical seminar. In the same year, the theme of the 60th anniversary high-end forum of Guangdong Photographers Association was "Visual Culture and Salon Photography", but there was no organized and systematic discussion about salon photography in China before. The influence of this situation on photography higher education in China cannot be ignored. In recent years, many colleges and universities have set up photography majors and courses. When I visited through the Internet, I saw something similar to "Our school received a notice from the organizing committee of the 16th Olympic Super Tour 8" in the announcements of many local university websites.

The work of a teacher in the photography department was successfully selected for the exhibition. This film festival is an international film festival certified by PSA (American Photographic Association) and FLAP (International Photographic Federation). It is one of the international competitions with the largest number of participants and the highest level at present, which fully proves the international standard of photography major in our school and forms an unscientific academic orientation in related photography teaching.

At present, we have realized that as a technology to acquire, save and reproduce images, the essential attribute of photography is to preserve images. When images are used in different fields, different understandings of photography are formed. It is also based on this point that the way of dividing photography into media, art and application has been widely recognized in today's photography industry. At present, the vigorous development of digital photography provides endless possibilities for the change and innovation of photographic images in aesthetic expression, and photo photography has ushered in spring. At the same time, the operation mode, competition and reward mode of salon photography in the Internet era make it easier for beginners to participate. Therefore, starting from the history of photography and closely combining with the background of the times, it is of great significance to make a rigorous academic analysis of the essence of photo photography and salon photography and scientifically sort out their development and evolution.