从记忆到想像：艺术作为摄影时代的影像转向

在传统观念下,摄影被认为是真实时空中发生的事物和活动的复制品,是现实世界的纯粹反映,而数字影像的记录方式从实体的银盐变成了虚拟的像素,通过后期再加工合成或电脑绘图制作的影像把摄影从记忆中的现实空间转化为想象中的拟像空间,解构了传统摄影的确证和记录的本质,颠覆了摄影艺术纪实美、瞬间美的本体特性,重塑了当代影像艺术的创作与审美架构,步入瓦尔特.本雅明所预示的＂艺术作为摄影＂的时代。本文从传统摄影的本体特性切入,探讨数字影像技术对新闻摄影伦理观念的冲击,摄影艺术创作方法和观念的转变等问题。

From Memory to Imagination:Art as the Image Diversion in the Era of Photography

In the traditional concept of photography,photography was deemed as the duplicate of things and activities took place in real time and space as well as pure reflection of actual world;however,the recording mode of digital imaging turn substantial silver salt into fictitious pixel,and post synthetic processing or computer graphics imaging brought imagined virtual space from real space existed in memory,thus deconstructing the solid evidence of traditional photography and the essence of recording,subverting the ontological character of documentary and instant beauty of photographical art,remodeling the creation as well as the aesthetic framework of contemporary imaging art,and stepping into the era of "art as photography" predicted by Walter Benjamin.This paper discusses the influence of digital imaging technology had on news photography ethics concept,the transformation of creation method and concepts of photographical art and imaging concept by choosing the character of reality of traditional photography as an entry point.