台灣家族紀念照研究

Abstract

本論文探討家族紀念照如何反映家族結構的演變，與如何發揮紀念物的功用。一般庶民最早是以祖先肖像畫的方式，將先人留在家中供奉。攝影術發明之後，使祖先肖像畫開始以明暗畫法來製作；此外，攝影開始為還在世的人留下影像。

台灣早期拍攝家族的照片，多半依照長幼順序來排列成員：輩份最大者坐中間，女性在旁，男性在後排，子女在前排。今日的家族照片成員排列則比較自由，原因是現代人主要居住於核心家庭且傾向個人主義，拍照時以情感為優先，而不是團體的次序。

人們將拍下的相片收集成相本以保存回憶。但是照片對「回憶」的作用僅在於提示而已；回憶的材料早就已經存在我們的心中。

This research examined how the family photograph shows the passage of family contexture and how it funtions as commemoration. At first, people devoted their ancestors at home by a portrait. The invention of the photography brings the painting technique of portrait to the consciousness of light and darkness, and, by photography, the lives have the chance to keep their own images.

In most of the family photographs in the early years of Taiwan, the familes array by the age：the elder in the precedence, the women beside, the men queue up at the back, and the children at the front. Today, The people no longer respect this rules in their family photographs. Because of most people live in a nuclear family and affect to individualism, when taking picture, they care about the emotion more then the order of the group.

People collect the photos into the photobooks to keep the memory. In fact, the photobooks only in the function of reminding. All the memories are kept in our internality.