Aesthetic pursuit of news photography

As an individual in the overall aesthetics, news photography has formed its own aesthetic system of news photography. However, the aesthetic system of news photography itself is holistic compared with the field of news photography.

It is an indisputable fact that beauty exists in all human activities. However, there are still some deviations in the understanding of beauty in the field of news photography. Some people think that the existence and pursuit of beauty in news photography is aestheticism. Especially in terms of expression, expressive force of beauty and artistic expression, these words are taboo. Even avoid these terms; Some people think that news photography is a reflection of objective facts, and it is documentary. If there is beauty, it is not news photography. In a word, the concept of beauty has been treated unfairly. From these viewpoints, it is a question of understanding the essential attributes of news photography and beauty.

Why do you doubt the existence of beauty in the field of news photography? This is essentially a long-standing misunderstanding. The root of this misunderstanding is that whether we can recognize beauty is regarded as whether we can recognize the universality of beauty. News photography doubts the existence of beauty, really because we don't see the essence of human primitive belief, but mistakenly think that it is directly in reality, it is reality itself, and this reality includes photographic performance. As we all know, beauty is people's judgment on a thing, and the judgment benchmark is the prototype of aesthetic practice accumulation. So beauty is perceptual, and perception is embodied in everyone. Because of the perceptual differences between people. As a result, the understanding of beauty is different. It is manifested in the evaluation of photographic pictures, such as the evaluation of a picture: some people think it has aesthetic value; Others think it lacks aesthetic value. Some people think it is a masterpiece; Others think it's average.

Conclusion: The above reasons mainly come from people's cultural awareness generated by their own social practice. People who lack certain cultural awareness cannot perceive the deep meaning and existence of beauty in aesthetic practice. There is even confusion in judgment, which deviates from the overall pursuit of beauty by human beings. It is true that cultural awareness is the root of aesthetic psychological differences between people.

According to Marxist view of practice, aesthetics is a science to study human aesthetic practice. This laid a solid foundation for the study of photojournalism aesthetics. On this basis, the aesthetics of news photography is studied. Its ultimate goal is to narrow the cultural awareness and aesthetic psychological differences of news photographers, improve the aesthetic creativity of news photography and promote the development of aesthetic practice of news photography.

Therefore, photojournalism aesthetics is a subject that studies photojournalism aesthetic phenomena and laws in practice.

Aesthetics is the science of human aesthetic practice, and photojournalism aesthetics is a discipline in the field of aesthetics, which contains the laws of aesthetic research. Because of the particularity and concreteness of news photography itself, news photography has formed its own aesthetic phenomenon and law in practice. This determines the research object and scope of photojournalism aesthetics.

What is shocking in news photography? That is the true and vivid image of human life activities grasped by news photographers in news photography practice and aesthetic practice. It should be said that news photography is closely related to aesthetic practice. In a sense, it is the crystallization of the aesthetic practice of news photography. Therefore, to study the aesthetic practice of news photography, we must study the basic composition of aesthetic elements. Namely: subject, object and the relationship between subject and object. Specifically, it is to study the aesthetic creativity of news photographers themselves and the aesthetic principles of news photography form expression. The research object of photojournalism aesthetics should have the following three aspects:

1. Subject: The aesthetic subject of news photography refers to the news photographer himself;

2. Object: Object includes two aspects. First, it refers to the shooting object faced by news photography, which is also the theme to be expressed in the picture; The second refers to the audience.

3. Relationship between subject and object: mainly refers to the relationship between photographers and the subject and object of pictures and the audience, which is a two-way communication and mutual influence.

In the research object of photojournalism aesthetics, these three elements constitute an organic whole and dynamic system. Therefore, it is of great significance to study the harmony and unity of the aesthetic "three elements" of news photography, explore the significance of the deep beauty of news photography and tap the aesthetic creativity of news photography.

The aesthetics of news photography mainly involves three aspects: 1, characteristics and laws; 2. History and current situation; 3. Relationship with adjacent disciplines.