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What are the main categories of photography?

Photography can be divided into two categories: documentary photography and artistic photography.

1. Art photography can be divided into three categories: humanistic photography, landscape still life photography and exploration photography. Artistic photography is a photographic work that people get through artistic creation, which is called artistic photography. People continue to add artistic elements to photography and begin to produce artistic photography. The difference between it and documentary photography lies in the degree of artistry, but there is no absolute boundary;

2. Documentary photography is divided into street photography, rural photography, folk photography and exposure photography. Documentary photography is photography and its works that take people or people's activities as the shooting object, the author has clear artistic creation motives and techniques, and strictly follows the principle of authenticity. The only difference between it and documentary photography lies in whether the author has clear artistic creation motives and techniques.