The Art of Photography in the Eyes of Ordinary People —— Thoughts on Reading The History of World Photography

-The Bible

Everyone in life is recording their own images. Some people use their brains, some use canvases, some use notebooks, and some use cameras. ...

As a conference photographer, from the first Canon 40D with 24- 105 lens to the 6th with 24-70 lens, his technology has improved slightly, and he is really an empty shelf in essence.

Looking back on my exposure to photography, my first impression was that the photographer put his head into a big camera with a black cloth pocket. Later, my father borrowed a film camera with regular shooting function, because when I was a child, my grandfather or grandmother had to take a family photo on their birthday. Then there is the "fool" film camera. Then there is the familiar digital card machine. After that, SLR cameras began to enter ordinary families. Now is the era of micro-single camera and SLR camera.

Pulled some useless, back to the point, talk about the history of world photography written by Zheng Gu. The reason for buying this book is actually very simple, that is, I want to know the history of photography. Because the best way to understand and learn an industry is to study its history.

But this book is really a textbook, and I personally find it difficult to chew. It's like an old pedant shaking his head on the platform, telling knowledge that only he can understand. As for whether the students in the audience can understand, it is not his concern. He just tells it in his own way. So in this book, I personally suggest that if you are a layman in photography like me, you should reserve some original knowledge before reading it.

The book lists many photographers according to different sections, but I have heard very little about them. What is even more frightening is the typesetting of books. Pictures and words seem to be piled together, but where to start and which works to list are completely guesses. Because the author tells the history of photography from the perspective of theoretical research, the whole book feels like a philosophical work, which makes you sleepy when you read it, and lists too many photographers' names, which makes you feel too scared when you read it.

But then again, as a teaching material, teaching material, especially theoretical teaching material, it is beneficial to teachers' teaching and can lead to many examples to explain different theories.

As far as harvest is concerned, a book can regard many works as harvest. On the other hand, I know the original name of Bresson's Decisive Moment, which is called "candid photos". This may be a historical miracle under commercial operation.

Because there are too many concepts in the book that I don't understand, I really don't have too many opinions on this book, but there are still some suggestions for reference, that is, if you don't know what modern art, contemporary art, post-modern art and other concepts are, then put this book aside first.