The development of photographic literature

From the perspective of photography technology, modern photography technology came into being in 1893. Since then, an important photographic genre-photographic articles has appeared in western newspapers and periodicals. They use several or more photos with necessary words to form an easy-to-understand "article" to clarify a theme or discuss a problem in depth. This kind of reporting method is very close to our country's photography special report, which is both readable and readable. The images with words and images without words complement each other strongly, strengthening the effect, and combining these words with these photos to become a complete idea. This news technology promoted the emergence of European photographic stories in the 1920s. Photographic stories have always been the creative form of photographic literature, but unfortunately, at this time, "photographic literature" has not grown into a completely free and conscious literary form, nor has it become a powerful literary trend of thought. It needs to be confirmed consciously in theory, which is different from China's photographic literature.

There is another important reason for the emergence of photographic literature, especially its development and prosperity, and that is the support of people's aesthetic needs. The famous French thinker Baudrillard said that the West is in an iconic era. Computer, information processing technology, media, automatic control, etc. It has become the organizing principle of society according to class symbols and patterns. Even the computer WINDOWS operating system is mainly based on icons, rather than inputting commands through words. Images and their own charm have penetrated into the field of knowledge and communication that we used to pay attention to words. In such an iconic era, images have become one of the main aesthetic fashions, which strongly supports photographic literature and provides a good market atmosphere for photographic literature. In addition, under the banner of photographic literature, elites from all walks of life are gathered, and a group of people are condensed with photographic literature, which provides healthy and upward motivation and intellectual support for the construction of socialist material civilization and spiritual civilization. It can be said that photographic literature has gained extensive influence with diversified modern elite consciousness. Judging from the number and types of works created by photographic literature, photographic literature is full of flowers and colorful, which can be divided into photographic novels, photographic documentary literature, photographic prose and photographic poetry; It can also be divided into narrative photography literature and lyric photography literature. Photographic literature presents various artistic forms.