Photobook Publishing as Everyday Life Aesthetics
Date Issued
2014
Date
2014
Author(s)
Lin, Chih-Yang
Abstract
Our society has put more emphasis on aesthetics since there are more and more magazines focusing on life style and everyday life aesthetics. How to chase and grasp the sense of happiness in everyday life has become an issue and an important living skill nowadays. Everyday life aesthetics is a positive attitude to life for everyone rather than a consuming culture focusing on taste. Therefore, this study takes photobooks as the objective to explore people’s art work in everyday life in order to understand how people create and experience aesthetics.
The study interviews 22 people who have published photobooks and are conscious of aesthetics to understand how they create their photobooks, how to experience aesthetics and what everyday life aesthetics they have. On the other hand, this study also explores the photobook on the angle of technology in this digital era since the essence of photo and photography has changed, and photobooks itself involves new technology of digital technology and old technology of printing.
The study suggests four findings: first, photobooks activate our memory. People use photobooks as an agent to tell their life stories in a way that photos and memory are re-created. Second, photobooks re-write our original life experiences and thus a new reality is created and a new concept of self is developed. This comes from the effects of digital camera, digital photo and photobook editing tool.
Third, the old technology does not die even in this digital era because it combines with new technology and enables people to take advantage from both sides. Photobooks suggest physical items, papers and books, are still valuable. Finally, everyday aesthetics can be reached by self-actualization. In the process of creating photobooks, the interviewees develop their creativity, think more about the meaning of life, and strengthen their life goals so they achieve self-actualization, which enables people to experience everyday life aesthetics.
This study aims to inspire people to live in aesthetics and lead a life full of happiness. Also, the study provides a new angle for the academic community of communication to study people’s everyday life. Finally, the study suggests the new concept of self in this digital era.
Subjects
相片書
相片
攝影
美感
美感生活
審美
Type
thesis
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