This chapter reminds me to think about why people love shooting landscape photos when they already can through others' photos. I asked myself what is the meaning for me to take landscape photos. Usually because of the aesthetic sentiment, and sometimes I used landscape photos to share my locations. More than these meanings in life, landscape photography was used as such a common and powerful way to reinforce national claims. Aesthetic and religious sentiments are experienced in the natural world. Landscape photos are the reflection of the “objective reality of the world and the central position of the perceiving individual”. In early black-and-white landscape photos, the untamed and vast world was documented. That the world was unchanging and unpopulated was emphasized. With the development of technology, things were changed. Instead of "great earth gesture", artificial forests and architectures create "man-altered landscape". Human engagement in the landscape brings more social narration to landscape photos. Moreover, aesthetic values changed into form, mood, texture, and craft. People in different generations bring different meanings to landscape photos. Humans shape landscapes and landscapes change the human mind as well. Man is the creature of the age.
Knowing about the history of photographers’ attitude of landscape photos is meaningful and bring more perspectives to look into the landscape photos.
“These photograms, for that is what they are, do not offer views but instead record the activity and conditions of a setting in a new perspective, one that does not mimic human sight.”
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