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[Calendar history]
Mature in the early twentieth century a photographic art genre.
Create the guide for the photographer Stiglitz (1864-1946).
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[Main sheets]
Should play the characteristics and performance of photography itself, to extricate it from the impact of the painting to the pursuit of pure photography beauty photography special effect - a high degree of clarity, rich tone level, subtle lighting changes, pure black and white tone, subtle texture performance, precise image portrayed.
Deliberate pursuit of the so-called "photographic quality": accurate, direct, subtle and natural to the performance aspects of the subject of light, color, line, shape, pattern, quality, without using any other medium of the plastic arts.
From a certain angle, the purism some ideas and creative is the formalism and naturalism of the "Mixed", then the derivatives become the "new materialism".
But the genre to a certain extent, promote exploration and photography features and performance skills.
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【Masterpiece]
1 Coban sent for exhibition in 1913 overlooking the New York, is pure camp masterpiece.
Photographer from a height overlooking a plaza in New York, although there is no processing, modification, but the novel composition, unique styling, refreshing
E Stan Cheng K Sandberg, is a multi-exposure techniques alone pieces of work space, time constraints, a picture a delicate portrait of the poet emotional conversion, the combination of tone and composition changes in the very sense of rhythm.
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[Representative]
The famous photographer Strand (1890 -?) And the Young Photographer Group in the f 64 photography organizations, such as Adams, the root make John.
The purists in his later works, lines, patterns and distorted image of the abstract aspects of the development of its influential photographers of Yabo, Shiding Na, history off special text and Evans.
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【Article is excerpted from: Baidu Encyclopedia】
【Network reprint / Just reference】
【Translation is by Goolge】