What is humanistic documentary photography?

Humanistic documentary photography can be clearly explained in one sentence: a photo that truthfully records and reflects a national lifestyle can be called humanistic documentary photography. There is great potential in the later stage of landscape photography. The later stage here refers to life makeup, not makeup. There is a limit control method in landscape photography, that is, when you consider the later stage of a photo, you put aside objective factors such as your later stage technology and exhaust your imagination. What is the best picture when you only change the color and highlight the details of the picture? If you think that even if these two aspects reach the limit, the picture is just average, then there is no need to discuss the later potential, although the former has greater potential from 0 to 50 and from 50 to 80. Only when you have the corresponding post-technology, many scenes can be made into works with strong sense of picture, and the sense of superiority will be gone.

Special humanistic documentary photography: there is a kind of portrait photography that can be called humanistic documentary photography. We can call this kind of portrait photography humanistic documentary photography by reflecting a specific history through portraits. There is no one in the photo, only one or several objects in a natural state, so this object was not in a natural form from the beginning, but was created by human beings through labor. Through it, we can still call it humanistic documentary photography. War is also the category of humanistic documentary photography, because war is also the highest form of game triggered by human survival.

Documentary, as its name implies, is a real record, but the real record and photography have different understandings. The real record contains the hardships and inspiration of the photographer's re-creation, which is essentially different from ordinary photography. In the digital age, documentary photography can't be separated from PS, but PS also has different essence. It does not change the essential content of its photos, but strengthens the theme of photographic works through PS, such as tone, light and color. Personally, it is still a documentary work.

Posture is also a way for photographers to re-create. Posture also reflects a certain phenomenon of human existence and the artistic level of photographers. For example, some photographers went to Qiandao Lake, paid attention to several fishermen, and took many works of casting nets for fishing at a specific time and place. These pictures are both beautiful and vivid. Is this a humanistic documentary? Personally, I don't think it should be counted, but it should belong to artistic and humanistic works.