相对于古典艺术来说,摄影术是一个工业化社会以来的现代性技术媒介。但是,这个现代性的媒介诞生后,却不得不走本来是它应该蔑视的传统艺术道路,因为它当时太没有自信了。在它诞生的时候,社会的视觉文化意识形态还是以绘画的唯美主义占统治地位的时代,无论艺术家还是公众,早就被古典的唯美主义洗脑了。人们对于视觉艺术的要求,多数还是带有浪漫 Compared with classical art, photography is a modern technical medium since industrialized society. However, after the birth of this medium of modernity, it had to go the traditional art path that it should have defied because it was too self-confident at that time. At the time of its birth, the social ideology of visual culture was still dominated by the aestheticism of painting. Both the artist and the public had been brainwashed by classical aestheticism. People’s demands for visual arts are mostly romantic