Is it true that the essence of photography is recording?

The essence of photography is recording, and the answer to this question cannot be arbitrarily right or wrong. I look at it this way:

1, traditional photography is indeed a record.

Photography was born in1in the late 1930s, and was created by the French painter Louis? Jacques? Mandai? Daguerre successfully invented practical photography for the first time. Only by creating paintings and slowly creating photography from paintings can people record the life scenes at that time.

2. In the early stage of development, photography was only an auxiliary tool for painting.

Before painting, human beings regarded graffiti as a kind of pattern recognition and marking at the earliest, and then slowly had a fixed picture as a way of home communication of words, and then painting and words came into being. We can say that there was painting before graffiti, and photography was only an auxiliary tool for painting at that time.

3. In the early days of modern society, photography has the function of recording.

With the invention of the camera, people have the tools to record photos manually. The essence of photography is to record what is happening.

Therefore, from the development history of photography, the essential feature of photography is recording, a pure image recording. In the past, photography was more of a record. Before there is no text, before there is no text, graphics are used to record important things.

4. In today's information society, the definition of photography essence has been diversified.

After entering the digital age, especially the mobile phone is called photography, photography has also undergone great changes. With the continuous development of society, photography has become more diversified. Photography is not just black and white. With the use of color, color itself is the basic language.

Coupled with the use of light and post-technology in photography, photography has become more colorful and diverse. So in this sense, the essence of the past is not only a record, but also an art, so it can be said to be a career, and it may also be an art of life.

I believe that with the new development of the new era, photography will have a broader development space. We ordinary people can record the great times, show the charm of the times and create more and better photographic works of art through our own photographic equipment-mobile phones.