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【History term】
Mature in the early twentieth century as a photographic art genre.
A derivative of the American photographer who Stiglitz (1864-1946).
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【Term advocate】
Should play its own characteristics and performance photography, it freed from the influence of painting, photography by pursuing pure beauty of photography has a special effect - the height of the clear, rich tone level, subtle lighting changes, pure black and white tone, delicate texture performance, precise image portrayed.
Deliberate pursuit of so-called "photographic quality": accurate, direct, subtle and natural way to show the subject of light, color, line, shape, texture, quality aspects, without the aid of any other plastic arts media.
From a certain point of view, some purists and creative ideas formalism and naturalism are "hybrids", and later evolved into the "new doctrine that matter."
However, the genre has to some extent contributed to people's photography features and performance skills of exploration and research.
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