Photographic Modernism and the Early Forms of Constructed Photography Cover Image

Modernismul Fotografic şi Formele Incipiente ale Fotografiei Construite
Photographic Modernism and the Early Forms of Constructed Photography

Author(s): Luca Mixich
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), History of Art
Published by: Editura Eurostampa
Keywords: constructed photography; directed photography; narrative; photographic art; directing; modernism; artistic modernism;

Summary/Abstract: This article analyzes the forms that constructed photography developed in the context of photographic and artistic modernism of the first half of the 20th century. The contrast between the dominant approaches, at the aesthetic level in modernist photography, but also the positioning of the constructed photography in this context, will be emphasized. At the level of analysis, photographic creations belonging to artists such as Man Ray, Hans Bellmer, Claude Cahun, William Mortensen will be interpreted. All these photographers related in a certain way to the constructed photograph. Those defining but also particular aspects of them will be captured.

  • Issue Year: 10/2022
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 219-229
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: English, Romanian