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Thursday, 24 April 2008
Modernism is based on social change and looks at technology and the industrial revolution. It looks to something new and focuses on the world of tomorrow. In photography, it brought about the style of straight photography and movements such as surrealism. All of a sudden, different angles were being used, as well as the idea of repetition.
A well known modernist photographer is Edward Weston. His famous pepper photographs were very different to how a pepper would have been photographed then. Yet turning something that’s familiar into something that looks out of the ordinary was also part of the whole modernism movement.
Another photography who was part of this was Paul Strand. As an American photographer whose works span across many decades and continents, he is known as one of the greatest of the movement. His style of straight photography focused on things that would not usually be photographed, yet he made them the key element of the photograph. His image of the White Picket Fence displays how he decided to compose the image, when instead most photographers would have used the house as the main subject matter.
Image Credits:
1. Weston, E. (Unknown). Pepper #30. [Online image]. Available at: http://caraphillips.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/weston_pepper_number30.jpg (Accessed: 24 April 2008)
2. Strand, P. (1916). White Fence. [Online image]. Available at: http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=26094&rendTypeId=4 (Accessed: 24 April 2008).
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Modernism
Modernism is based on social change and looks at technology and the industrial revolution. It looks to something new and focuses on the world of tomorrow. In photography, it brought about the style of straight photography and movements such as surrealism. All of a sudden, different angles were being used, as well as the idea of repetition.
A well known modernist photographer is Edward Weston. His famous pepper photographs were very different to how a pepper would have been photographed then. Yet turning something that’s familiar into something that looks out of the ordinary was also part of the whole modernism movement.
Another photography who was part of this was Paul Strand. As an American photographer whose works span across many decades and continents, he is known as one of the greatest of the movement. His style of straight photography focused on things that would not usually be photographed, yet he made them the key element of the photograph. His image of the White Picket Fence displays how he decided to compose the image, when instead most photographers would have used the house as the main subject matter.
Image Credits:
1. Weston, E. (Unknown). Pepper #30. [Online image]. Available at: http://caraphillips.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/weston_pepper_number30.jpg (Accessed: 24 April 2008)
2. Strand, P. (1916). White Fence. [Online image]. Available at: http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=26094&rendTypeId=4 (Accessed: 24 April 2008).
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