The Ibn Al-Haytham's theory of light aesthetics and the principles of Modern photography aesthetics: a comparative study

Ibn Al-Haytham can be considered as one of the most important thinkers who, when faced with the concept of beauty, tried to explain it based on objective and subjective principles and characteristics based on scientific methodology. He distinguished between the two aspects of visual perception and visual feeling and considered visual perception as the result of visual feeling and called them under the title of minor meanings, which from his point of view are twenty-two numbers in total. Considering the structural nature of photography, whose formal aesthetics is based on the principles that are completely consistent with the issues raised in Ibn Al-Haytham's opinions, the adaptation of these theoretical issues and how to apply them in the art of photography can, in addition to emphasizing the importance of Ibn Al-Haytham's artistic opinions brings the structural aesthetics of photography from a different perspective. The purpose of this article is to compare the details of Ibn Al-Haytham's twenty-two works with the essential features of photography from the perspective of aesthetics, and to answer the question of how the theory of light aesthetics from Ibn Al-Haytham's point of view can be reconciled with the modern principles of modern photography aesthetics. First explains the nature of photography and then discusses its compatibility with Ibn Al-Haytham's opinions. This article, which uses a comparative approach, is fundamental-theoretical in terms of its purpose and descriptive-analytical in terms of its method. Also, information has been collected from various library sources and websites and finally analyzed with a qualitative approach. Accordingly, by describing the twenty-two cases of Ibn Al-Haytham's aesthetics and describing and analyzing the aesthetics of photography from the perspective of visual structure, how to reconcile them was discussed, and the results of the research show the full compatibility and effectiveness of Ibn Al-Haytham's opinions in the field of modern photography aesthetics.Ibn Al-Haytham can be considered as one of the most important thinkers who, when faced with the concept of beauty, tried to explain it based on objective and subjective principles and characteristics based on scientific methodology. He distinguished between the two aspects of visual perception and visual feeling and considered visual perception as the result of visual feeling and called them under the title of minor meanings, which from his point of view are twenty-two numbers in total. Considering the structural nature of photography, whose formal aesthetics is based on the principles that are completely consistent with the issues raised in Ibn Al-Haytham's opinions, the adaptation of these theoretical issues and how to apply them in the art of photography can, in addition to emphasizing the importance of Ibn Al-Haytham's artistic opinions brings the structural aesthetics of photography from a different perspective. The purpose of this article is to compare the details of Ibn Al-Haytham's twenty-two works with the essential features of photography from the perspective of aesthetics, and to answer the question of how the theory of light aesthetics from Ibn Al-Haytham's point of view can be reconciled with the modern principles of modern photography aesthetics. First explains the nature of photography and then discusses its compatibility with Ibn Al-Haytham's opinions. This article, which uses a comparative approach, is fundamental-theoretical in terms of its purpose and descriptive-analytical in terms of its method. Also, information has been collected from various library sources and websites and finally analyzed with a qualitative approach. Accordingly, by describing the twenty-two cases of Ibn Al-Haytham's aesthetics and describing and analyzing the aesthetics of photography from the perspective of visual structure, how to reconcile them was discussed, and the results of the research show the full compatibility and effectiveness of Ibn Al-Haytham's opinions in the field of modern photography aesthetics.