What is the significance of photography?

Keep beautiful things with light and shadow, and discover the beauty around you with your heart.

It is said that photography is the handprint of civilization, and I quite agree with this metaphor. The invention of photography is a great progress of modern human civilization, because it was deeply branded as a "civilian" as soon as it appeared. Although photography has long been a "plaything" of the rich, it has aristocratic lineage, but its bold and unconstrained personality in its bones determines that it will eventually "run away from home" to fight and find its position and role in the changing world. It caters to the mainstream direction of contemporary civilization progress and has strong vitality.

Photography nowadays is nothing more than ordinary people. When the camera walks into every ordinary family and there is nothing to do, it is nothing more than a common practice to take some photos as a souvenir when taking family members or calling friends out to play. Further, it is to shoot the beautiful scenery of mountains and rivers for people to enjoy the beauty; Take a group of beautiful wedding photos as a permanent memorial when you get married; In order to stay young and beautiful, it seems that photography is a very relaxing thing.

But sometimes, when you see some photos, it seems that you have been hit by a ruthless bullet, and the invisible blood flows mercilessly, so you can't help but groan. At this point, you don't feel a little happy, but you feel a heavy pressure on you.

Photography faces two choices at this time. One is artistic, and the other is documentary.

Photographers are also faced with a kind of confusion, a kind of thinking and a kind of pain.

Is photography regarded as a kind of personal catharsis, just like a writer's pen that climbs the grid? Or is it pure artistic creation, such as a colored brush in the hand of a painter?

Or, use it as a weapon? Scalpel?

Maybe it has diversity. Just as literature has a beautiful and soft side, it also has a side full of strength and blood and tears.

But what is the main significance of photography? What is the most fascinating part of its charm?

Photography is an instantaneous freeze of real images, which is doomed to be fundamentally different from other arts. Photography is the moment that determines eternity.

The charm of photography lies in its truth and its moment. The story behind the photo, the thinking after the moment.

A photographer will eventually get old and die, but the meaningful photos he takes may never disappear, but will last forever. And the story after the photo may deeply touch generations.

This is the greatness of the photographer and the responsibility of the photographer. To find the universal meaning contained in photos, and the real universal meaning is sincerity and kindness that can touch people's hearts; The hidden heartache, the sigh * * *; That kind of sad anger, that kind of wordless moving.

If you can find that universal meaning with a camera, then you are a photographer. No matter what kind of camera you use, no matter whether you shoot artistically or not.

As long as your heart is looking for it, you are a photographer.