1920-1990

New vision, Modernism

After the Great War, photographers were conciously looking for unconventional ways of making photographs such as abstractions, new angles of view and new techniques.

The "new vision" was rooted in the technological culture of the 20th century.

Rayograph Shell Jan Lauschmann

Rayograph,  Man Ray 1920

Sea Shell, Edward Weston 1920 Jan Lauschmann, 1920

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