At that time of conflict and restlessness in Germany a photographic movement arose that also struggled to return to normality but to a German everyday life with its peculiarities. This search crystallized in a movement known as Subjective Photography which requires to better understand a brief review of the status quo of photography in Germany from the New Objectivity to Nazi propaganda.
The New Objectivity Before the war in Germany during e-commerce photo editing the Weimar Republic the New Objectivity Neue photographic movement had emerged championed in the photographic realm by Albert as the Teutonic counterpart to the explorations of Paul Strand s direct photography in the United States. The New Objectivity as promulgated by sought to eliminate all artistic assimilation from photography and upheld three essential principles I reject pictorialism because photography has its own aesthetic and does not have to ask anything of painting The photographer must have essential technical skills and The main function of photography is the exact reproduction of form.
Photography is a graphic process of a particular nature that is neither art nor craft its value results partly from aesthetics and partly from technical judgment given its mechanical structure photography works better to faithfully. Paradoxically the photographs of and other New Objectivity photographers such as August Sander or Karl ended up becoming appreciated works of art even when their authors had an intention more closely related to the document to the record than to the individual artistic expression. |
发表于 2022-9-8 14:23