Analysis: Is photography art or technology?

Photography is a perfect combination of technology and art.

With the continuous development of modern society, people's aesthetic ability and requirements are also constantly improving. Nowadays, visual images are covering every corner of society, and photography, as an important means of visual images, is also developing rapidly, playing a huge role in social life and development. Photography is the perfect combination of technology and art. As a plastic art, it is an indispensable art form with great charm and potential in modern life. As a practical technology, it is widely used in various fields of modern life, such as scientific experiments, news reports, space exploration and so on. Photography has developed rapidly since its invention. A more important reason is that photographers constantly accept modern consciousness, conduct research and innovation on the basis of combining technology and art, and study the relationship between photography technology and art, which is more conducive to the development of photography. Therefore, it is of theoretical and practical significance to study the relationship between photography technology and art.

1 development of photography technology and art

(1) The emergence and development of photography technology. "Photography, in a nutshell, is an artistic style in which a photographer takes a camera as the basic tool, shoots people or scenery according to his own creative ideas, and then creates a visual artistic image that reflects social life and natural phenomena and expresses the author's thoughts and feelings through darkroom technology." [1] The development of photography technology can be roughly divided into four stages. The first stage: the early stage (1825 ~ 1839), which is mainly the gestation period of photography technology. Daguerre invented the silver disk photography in 1839; The second stage: the development stage (1840 ~ 1936), where photosensitive materials developed rapidly and color photography appeared; The third stage: maturity (1937 ~ 1959), during which photographic equipment such as cameras and auxiliary tools developed rapidly; The fourth stage: modern (1960 ~ present), during which photography entered the digital age.

The development of photography technology has developed from black-and-white photography to color photography, from film photography to digital photography, but people have never had a stable image in the process of photography research. Until 1826, French Joseph? Nisford? Niepce took a picture called "Scenes Seen in the Window" through his window. It took eight hours to expose this painting, which is called solar etching. This is the first permanent photo in the world. Then go to "1839 August 19, Louis? Jacques? Mount? Daguerre announced his invention at the French Academy. The history of photography generally takes 1839 published by Daguerre as the year of photography invention. " [2] This is the first practical photography method, that is, silver plate photography. Later, Carlo photography, glass dry plate method, collodion wet plate method, Ambro photography, iron plate photography and other photography techniques appeared. However, after the invention of photography, people's research and exploration on it still stayed in black and white photography until 186 1, an Englishman James? Clark. Maxwell photographed a checkered towel by adding red, green and blue filters, which laid the foundation for color photography. Subsequently, with the appearance of additive method and subtractive method, color photography also developed rapidly. At 1942, Kodak color negative appeared, making color photography really popular. With the development of technology, various auxiliary tools have appeared one after another, such as tripod, cable releaser, exposure meter, flashlight and so on. Since the 1990s, with the advent and development of the digital age, photography technology has entered a new era, realizing the ideal of "what you see is what you get". With the appearance of digital cameras, cameras have also moved from manual to automatic, and many post-production softwares have appeared one after another. Therefore, the requirements of focusing, exposure, depth of field, lighting, composition and other technologies are getting higher and higher, and the development of photography technology will be faster and faster.

(2) The formation and development of photography ... Simply put, photography is the art of light and shadow, which refers to the use of cameras, tripods and other auxiliary tools and some technical means to shoot photos with aesthetic value. It has the characteristics of modeling, intuition, reproducibility, expressiveness, immediacy and permanence. Generally speaking, the development of photography has gone through five stages. "The first stage: incubation period (1825 ~ 1839). During the exploration of photography, Daguerre invented the silver disc photography. The second stage: the early stage (1840 ~ 1889). After the invention of photography, the third stage: in modern times (1890 ~ 19 17), the photography art was mature, and various schools of photography art gradually appeared; The fourth stage: modernization (19 18 ~ 1959), the trend of modernist photography art is in the mainstream period; The fifth stage: contemporary (1960 ~ present), artistic photography has entered the post-modernism period. "

Since its invention, photography has basically been used in news photography, which is a very practical field. Most people think that photography does not belong to the art category ... until the beginning of the 20th century, photo photography appeared, mainly pursuing the artistic conception and form of works, with Oscar as the representative? Gustav. Relander and Henry? Peggy? Robinson. Since then, various schools have gradually developed, such as documentary photography. 1899, the first exhibition of French impressionist painting was held in Britain. Because of its influence, impressionist photography appeared later. Photographer Peter of the same year? Henry. Emerson published a paper entitled "Naturalistic Photography", and then naturalistic photography developed. "Because of Alfred? Stiglitz's photography creation practice, aesthetic exploration and unremitting organization and promotion for more than half a century, a brand-new and completely different photography concept and modern photography concept finally stood out in the 1920s. " [4] Including instant photography, purism photography, abstract photography, Dadaism photography and other schools. Not only that, the types of photography are also developing, and various classifications have emerged, such as advertising photography, people photography, landscape photography and so on. As well as the development of photographic composition, the use of photographic light and color, such as picture and reality, foreground and background, the expression of tone, line, light and color, and the change of modeling effect, these developments make the artistic atmosphere of photography more intense and make photography gradually become a subject combining technology and art.

2 the relationship between photography technology and art

(1) the relationship between photography technology and art photography has developed rapidly in technology since its invention, and it was not until the appearance of artistic photography in the middle of19th century that photography gradually approached art, and it has existed as a technology since its invention. Photographers at that time only used photography as a way to record events and landscapes. With the development of photography technology, people are no longer satisfied that photography is just a means of recording, and think that photography should be as artistic as painting, and it is an art. So the emergence of new technology has caused controversy: one school thinks that art must have the unique observation, creativity and expressive power of artists, while photography is only a mechanical copy and imitation, lacking artistic aesthetic value and not qualified to enter the art palace; Another school thinks that photography is as creative and aesthetic as other arts, so it should be an art. [5] Then, from the19th century, photographers began a long and arduous research process to prove that photography is also an art. In the middle of19th century, artistic photography began to appear, and some European photographers hoped to prove that photography was also an art by imitating painting. But many years later, artists did not affirm the position of photography, but photography deliberately imitated painting, which limited the expressive force of painting. So photo photography appeared, but photo photography proved that photography is an artistic way and art photography is in the same predicament. "After the 20th century, when photo photography was in the ascendant, photographers represented by American Stiglitz began to reflect on the nature of photography and began experiments that ran counter to the aesthetic principles of photo photography. In the end, pure photography finally became self-contained, and the classification of photography appeared in the history of art, which established the artistic status of photography. " [5] Photographers began to understand the essential characteristics and value of photography, pay more attention to the development of photography art, and develop photography from an artistic perspective. Photography has gradually become a combination of technology and art (2) Interaction between photography technology and art The development of photography is the result of the simultaneous development of technology and art. Generally speaking, only when technology develops can art develop, and the development of art constantly promotes the development of technology. For photography, it has a great connection with our lives. Whether it is technology or art, its development requires us to put in real feelings. Photography is not only an expression, but also a creation. Simply put, photography can truly reproduce the surrounding environment and living conditions, which requires the development of technology to gradually improve. It can also be created on the basis of reproduction and become a work of art. When technology develops to a certain extent, there is a need to develop art, and the development of art will also promote the development of technology to a certain extent.

In the whole development process of photography, technology and art complement each other. For example, first of all, the most important elements in photography are color and light. In the stage of black-and-white photography, light and tone are mainly used to express the art of photography. After the invention of color photography, photographers faced colorful nature and discovered the existence of beauty in nature. Some photographers express the beauty of nature through color and light, so there is landscape photography. This is not just an ordinary copy, it shows the beauty of nature from an artistic point of view, thus making the photographic works more pleasing to the eye. With people's knowledge and understanding of natural beauty, some photographers are more and more interested in landscape photography, so they can use light and color more skillfully, thus promoting the development of technology. Secondly, it is our application of the relationship between reality and reality. In the development stage of photography technology, we regard photography as general photography. It was later found that shooting in the absence of light would blur the picture. At first, people regarded these as invalid films. Later, photographers combined with the imitation of painting thought that proper blurring and combination of reality and reality could also increase the artistic sense of the picture, and there was a process from photography to sculpture to virtual image. In view of this, in order to better express the relationship between reality and reality, camera aperture, focusing and other functions have also developed accordingly, which has also promoted the development of technology. Therefore, the interaction between photography technology and art is very important for the development of photography. Through their interaction, * * * promoted the development of photography.

3 Conclusion

This paper mainly discusses the relationship between photography technology and artistic development. Photography technology can intuitively express what you want to express, people or things, thoughts and feelings through the lens. Photography is a higher level. If you want to turn a photographic work into art, you must put your feelings into it and feel people. This is the biggest feature of photography, and artistic creation is subjective. "When creating aesthetic objects and artistic processing, photographers always consciously or unconsciously penetrate into their creative attitude and aesthetic feelings, and their creative thinking and aesthetic taste directly influence and dominate the whole process of artistic creation." [6] Only by putting your own feelings into it can you make your works full of feelings. Photography has been integrated into social life from the beginning and plays an important role in people's lives. Its development is also inseparable from social life. One of the important reasons for the rapid development of photography is that it is a combination of technology and art, and a combination of theory and practice. The development of photography technology promotes the development of photography art, which in turn reacts on technology. Nowadays, with the popularity of various shooting tools, photography has entered every corner of people's lives, and shooting has become a well-known means. So photography will develop faster with the combination of technology and art.