新聞攝影裡「生活」與「日常」的奇觀化：World Press Photo「日常生活」類得獎作品分析（2010-2016）

Spectacularizing Life and the Everyday in Photojournalism: A Critical Analysis on Award-winning Images in the ＂Daily Life＂ Category of the World Press Photo Contest, 2010-2016

10.30386/MCR.201710_(133).0003

郭力昕(Li-Hsin Kuo)

World Press Photo（WPP） ； 《生活》雜誌 ； 日常生活 ； 新聞攝影 ； 奇觀化 ； World Press Photo (WPP) ； LIFE magazine ； daily life ； photojournalism ； spectacularization

新聞學研究

133期（2017 / 10 / 01）

87 - 133

繁體中文

本文通過荷蘭World Press Photo國際新聞攝影大賽過去七年在「日常生活」類的得獎作品，分析以西方新聞攝影競賽機制所主導的代表性影像，如何看待「生活」與「日常」。本文追溯首先建立西方新聞攝影理念、競賽機制與照片內容分類模式的《生活》雜誌，如何形塑了美國與西歐的新聞攝影「傳統」，「發明」了美國與全球對生活方式的某種想像或模仿，進而影響WPP對「日常生活」影像的鼓勵與實踐方向。本文認為，來自世界各地日常生活現場的WPP「日常生活」類得獎作品，其取材重點、拍攝角度、影像風格，與作品預設的觀者，皆使所有地區、尤其來自非西方社會的日常生活影像，變成一種文化或視覺上的奇觀。本文同時指出，WPP在傳播與文化市場上的強大影響力，造成西方攝影記者持續前往非西方地區獵取「日常生活奇觀」，也造成非西方地區的在地攝影師，以西方國家舉辦之新聞攝影競賽的評審口味、選材或美學取向，觀看自己社會裡的「日常生活」。

This paper studies award-winning photographs in the ＂Daily Life＂ category of the World Press Photo (WPP) contest during 2010-2016, and analyzes how those images from this influential photojournalistic institution in the West look at ＂life＂ and ＂the everyday＂. The essay reviews LIFE magazine, from which a certain set of professional conventions in Western photojournalism was ＂invented＂, and explains how it has shaped and encouraged the practices in WPP. The essay argues that award-winning photographic images in this category of WPP from all over the world, particularly those from non-Western areas, have transformed daily lives into cultural/visual spectacles through the contents selected, special angles/visual styles taken, or anticipated readers of the works. Due to the WPP's immense power in media and culture, this paper further contends that photojournalists from non-Western countries internalize such approaches exercised by Western photographers and jury members, and eventually self-exoticize the daily lives in their own societies.

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