Arts Studies and Criticism

Digital technology has had a profound impact on the creative paradigm and aesthetic system of portrait photography art. This article explores the innovative path of digital era figure photography in terms of expression form, creative logic, and value orientation from three perspectives: technological empowerment, media transformation, and cultural reconstruction. This article points out that digital technology has achieved the aesthetic value reconstruction of character photography from "recording reality" to "constructing meaning" by breaking through physical limitations, reconstructing creative subjectivity, and promoting the transformation of aesthetic paradigms. This article proposes that in the digital age, portrait photography needs to seek a balance between technological rationality and humanistic care in order to construct an artistic expression system with the spirit of the times.