In the context of comprehensively promoting rural revitalization, inheriting and developing excellent traditional culture has become a crucial issue. The vigorous development of rural construction has provided rich soil for photography creation. Rural documentary photography has unique advantages in recording local customs, witnessing the changes of the times, inheriting national collective memory, spreading local culture, and promoting social change. Based on the background of rural revitalization, starting from the current situation of the inheritance and development of rural traditional culture, this paper explores the great value of rural documentary photography in the inheritance of excellent traditional culture from the perspective of the needs of the times and the revitalization of culture through the analysis of the origin of Chinese and foreign rural documentary photography and typical creative practices. It will upgrade rural documentary photography from a simple visual experience to a value leading level, and help cultural inheritance and rural revitalization through the power of images.

Xu Lili. Research on the Value of Rural Documentary Photography in Promoting the Inheritance of Excellent Traditional Culture. Frontiers in Art Research (2023) Vol. 5, Issue 7: 101-107. https://doi.org/10.25236/FAR.2023.050718.

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