The cover of the August 1991 issue of Vanity Fair featured a naked pregnant Demi Moore photographed by the renowned female photographer Annie. It showcased the beauty of maternal radiance.
This was the first time a nude pregnant portrait had appeared on the cover of a magazine, causing a global sensation. Pregnant photography also sparked a trend.
Pregnant portraits started to appear in China about ten years ago. At that time, only a few customers went to photo studios to take such pictures. These customers were mostly from the art industry or white-collar workers in first-tier cities.
The shooting techniques back then were relatively simple, mainly for commemorative purposes. Nowadays, pregnant portraits have evolved from being recognized by a few people to gaining widespread market acceptance, from high-end white-collar workers to ordinary consumers, and from first-tier cities to second-tier cities, spreading widely among consumers.
However, many wedding and children's photography studios still don't pay enough attention to this area. In the eyes of the bosses, photographing pregnant women is troublesome, their figures are unattractive, and their expressiveness isn't great, so they choose not to promote or guide customers. Or the promotion is insufficient, lacking good samples and products, resulting in very few people coming to take photos, and those who do only take a few as keepsakes.
In June 2009, the photography industry saw the emergence of a new term "pregnancy photo craze," which officially rewrote the current state of the Chinese pregnancy photography industry. The pregnancy photography industry reached an unprecedented level of popularity. Currently, most medium and large cities in China have successively seen large-scale "pregnancy photo craze" trends! This trend has even spread to Japan, South Korea, and throughout Asia. Pregnancy photos have been accepted by the general public!