What does humanistic photography mean? Introduction to the meaning of humanistic photography.

1. Humanistic photography is taking people or people's activities as the shooting object. At present, this term is mostly used in artistic photography activities. Pure documentary photography, although some take people or their activities as the shooting object, also includes documentary photography or material photography.

2. The essence of humanistic photography is a photography activity that pays attention to people's living conditions. It should reflect people's essential characteristics, including living conditions, spiritual pursuit, local customs, history and culture. Folk photography belongs to humanistic photography, which belongs to documentary photography. They all pursue the truth. Whether posing or simply recording to disturb the subject, as long as the photo can convey the information to be conveyed, the photo itself is a work of humanistic photography.

3. Humanistic photography can be divided into documentary humanistic photography (hereinafter referred to as documentary photography) and non-documentary humanistic photography (such as TV, movie pictures, portraits, some commercial photography, etc.). Sometimes called humanistic photography, but only in a narrow sense).