The Political Expression in Chinese Landscape Photography

Abstract

This article reviews the development of Chinese contemporary photography, discussing the birth of landscape photography, its creative methods, and the social issues that photographers are concerned about. Landscape photography combines documentary photography and conceptual photography. This allows Chinese landscape photography to continue the civilian and critical nature of documentary photography in terms of political stance. At the same time, the creative method is more contemporary. In terms of creative methods, photographers use road photography, ruin photography, and red images to express their political opinions. The thesis reveals that landscape photography has the ambiguity of position and the profundity of criticism in terms of political expression. It breaks away from the traditional disciplines of photojournalism in Chinese photography, cancels the privilege of "moment", and incorporates the space that has been ignored by Chinese documentary photography into the main body of expression.