Photography Aesthetics and Photography Aesthetics

Aesthetics, as a proposition, began with the books Estetik and as titik published by the German philosopher Baum Tong Jia in 1750. After more than 200 years, many aestheticians put forward different views from different research angles. However, there is still no accurate conclusion. Among them, the rationalist aesthetics of Hegel, a famous German philosopher in the18th century, defined aesthetics in his book Aesthetics. "Its object is a vast field of beauty. More precisely, its scope is art, or rather, it is beautiful art. " Among them, aesthetics is the science of studying beauty, aesthetics is the philosophy of art, and aesthetics is the science of studying aesthetic relations. Although these viewpoints involve the relationship between aesthetics and human aesthetic phenomena, they all ignore the link of highlighting the practice of human aesthetic phenomena.

Understanding the meaning of aesthetics is the premise of studying photography aesthetics. However, what is aesthetics? This is directly related to the fundamental aesthetic problem of what is beauty. Beauty originates from the primitive belief of human beings and is the primitive experience of self-fantasy and self-imagination. The material world is constantly changing, new materials are produced and old materials are dying out. This is the law of nature. From ancient times to the present, in the historical evolution of human activities, primitive experience has constantly experienced and endowed some things with the concept of characteristic beauty through human activities, but this kind of endowment is not given to all things, but to those things related to human nature, morality and even human ontology. Human beings put these endowed things into their hearts, preserve, recall, update, refine, reproduce and finally settle down, forming a comparative prototype of human activities, which is called "beautiful things" and exists with human beings. It can be inferred that beauty comes from human's own judgment of things; The benchmark of this judgment is "prototype"; Beauty is not inherent in things themselves, but gives certain characteristics of things a beautiful meaning in human activities. Therefore, it can be inferred that the basis of beauty is perception, which comes from aesthetic practice in human activities. Therefore, it can be said that beauty comes from the aesthetic practice of human activities. Aesthetics is a science that studies the aesthetic practice of human activities.

Human beings constantly pursue beautiful things and look forward to a bright future, which reflects the totality of human pursuit of beauty. Marxist holism holds that "this is a shining light, and all other colors are hidden in it, which changes their characteristics." This is a special ether, which determines the proportion of all existence revealed in it. "Therefore, the overall" proportion "is composed of individuals. Marx pointed out: "The first premise of any human history is undoubtedly the existence of living individuals. "The premise of totality is individual, and the unity of totality and individual constitutes the totality of human aesthetic practice. Therefore, it can be inferred that the overall beauty can be directly expressed as beauty. It can remind people that the overall beauty is also beauty. The totality of beauty is composed of individuals, and then it is inferred that beauty is the perceptual expression of the totality of human activities in individual experience. From the aesthetic point of view, the individual is a specific aspect of aesthetic research; The combination of individuals constitutes the whole aesthetic system.

Photography was born in the pursuit of a better future. It constantly plays its role and spreads the message of "good things". Photography, by means of photography technology, transmits information with unique visual instant images. The combination of graphics and text explains a certain aspect of photography attributes from a specific angle, but ignores the aesthetic practice attributes of photography. The aesthetic practice attribute of photography is an indispensable and important attribute of photography. When people watch news pictures, in order to satisfy their vision and information, they freely and consciously use aesthetic consciousness to measure the beauty of the pictures. There are two aspects here, one is the existence form of real image; The second is the information content that coexists with the image. A good photographic work can not only achieve the effect of "a picture is worth a thousand words", but also has lasting artistic charm. Therefore, studying photography from the aesthetic point of view is undoubtedly the true embodiment of people's aesthetic pursuit.

Therefore, photography, as an individual in the overall aesthetics, has formed its own photographic aesthetic system. The aesthetic system of photography itself is a whole relative to the field of photography. It is an indisputable fact that beauty exists in all human activities. However, there are still some deviations in the understanding of beauty in the field of photography. Some people think that the existence and pursuit of beauty in photography is aestheticism. Especially in terms of expression, expressive force of beauty and artistic expression, these words are taboo. Even avoid these terms; Others believe that photography is a reflection of objective facts and is documentary. If there is beauty, it is not news photography. In a word, the concept of beauty has been treated unfairly. From these viewpoints, it is a question of understanding the essential attributes of photography and beauty.

Why do you doubt the existence of beauty in the field of photography? This is essentially a long-standing misunderstanding. The root of this misunderstanding is that whether we can recognize beauty is regarded as whether we can recognize the universality of beauty. The doubt about the existence of beauty in photography is really because we don't see the essence of human primitive belief, but mistakenly think that it is directly in reality, which includes photographic performance. As we all know, beauty is people's judgment on a thing, and the judgment benchmark is the prototype of aesthetic practice accumulation. So beauty is perceptual, and perception is embodied in everyone. Because of the perceptual differences between people. As a result, the understanding of beauty is different. It is manifested in the evaluation of photographic pictures, such as the evaluation of a picture: some people think it has aesthetic value; Others think it lacks aesthetic value. Some people think it is a masterpiece; Others think it's average.

Conclusion: The above reasons mainly come from people's cultural awareness generated by their own social practice. People who lack certain cultural awareness cannot perceive the deep meaning and existence of beauty in aesthetic practice. There is even confusion in judgment, which deviates from the overall pursuit of beauty by human beings. It is true that cultural awareness is the root of aesthetic psychological differences between people.

According to Marxist view of practice, aesthetics is a science to study human aesthetic practice. This laid a solid foundation for the study of photography aesthetics. On this basis, the study of photography aesthetics is carried out. Its ultimate goal is to narrow the difference between photographers' cultural consciousness and aesthetic psychology, improve their aesthetic creativity and promote the development of their aesthetic practice.

Therefore, photography aesthetics is a subject that studies the aesthetic phenomena and laws of photography in practical activities.

Aesthetics is the science of human aesthetic practice, and photography aesthetics is a discipline in the field of aesthetics, which contains the laws of aesthetic research. Because of the particularity and concreteness of photography itself, photography has formed its own aesthetic phenomenon and law in practice. This determines the research object and scope of photography aesthetics.

What is shocking in photography? That is the real and vivid image of human life activities grasped by photographers in their photography practice and aesthetic practice. It should be said that photography is closely related to aesthetic practice. In a sense, it is the crystallization of photography aesthetic practice. Therefore, to study the aesthetic practice of photography, we must study the basic composition of aesthetic elements. Namely: subject, object and the relationship between subject and object. Specifically, it is to study the photographer's own aesthetic creativity and the aesthetic principles expressed in the form of photography. The research object of photography aesthetics should have the following three aspects:

1, subject: the aesthetic subject of photography refers to the photographer himself;

2. Object: Object includes two aspects. First, it refers to the object that photography faces, and it is also the theme to be expressed in the picture; The second refers to the audience.

3. Relationship between subject and object: it mainly refers to the relationship between the photographer and the subject, object and audience of the picture, which is a two-way communication and mutual influence.

In the research object of photography aesthetics, the composition of these three elements is an organic whole and dynamic system. Therefore, it is of great significance to study the harmony and unity of the "three elements" of photography aesthetics by aesthetic methods for exploring the significance of deep beauty and tapping the aesthetic creativity of photography.