The Taiwan Photographic Society, whose motto was realism with a local color, and the Photographic Society of China, whose rallying cry was salon pictorialism, represented the two main streams of photography on Taiwan during the 1960s and 70s. Because of differences in viewpoint, language, and thinking, the two groups moved in different circles of activity and engaged in different spheres of endeavor.
以鄉土寫實為主旨的「台灣省攝影學會」，和以沙龍畫意為號召的「中國攝影學會」，是六、七○年代台灣攝影的兩大主流，由於認知與觀點的差異，加上語言、意識上的隔閡，逐漸地，他們各自發展出不同的活動領域與體系。