The invention discloses a liquid crystal-based direct-view anti-glare imager, which comprises an objective imaging system, wherein a high-temperature polycrystalline silicon (HTPS) liquid crystal plate is arranged on the light exit side of the objective imaging system; a semi-reflector a, a semi-reflector b and an eyepiece imaging system are arranged on the light exit side of the HTPS liquid crystal plate in turn; an infrared light-emitting diode is arranged outside the eyepiece imaging system; a right-angle prism is arranged on a light reflecting side of the semi-reflector a; a semi-reflector c and a charge coupled device (CCD) are arranged on the light reflecting side of the right-angle prism in turn; the CCD is electrically connected with a circuit control module; and the output end ofthe circuit control module is connected with the HTPS liquid crystal plate. The invention also discloses an anti-glare imaging method. In the method, the infrared light-emitting diode is used as a light source to lighten eyes, automatic focusing is controlled after an eye stare direction is determined by collecting, processing and feeding back the pupil image information of a photographer, and the HTPS liquid crystal plate is used to modulate all pixels one by one, so that the contrast ratio of an image is reduced and the definition of the image is improved.