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The New Vision is a specific style in photography, which has developed in the 1920s. The New Look is often called with photography at the Bauhaus in one breath. The imagery of the New Vision would loosen fixed structures in terms of composition and lighting, and exposure photography. Instead, a dynamic alignment is postulated that adapts to social progress and this can be documented accordingly.

Style

Before the first world war changed the photography. It is no longer wanted the vicinity of the painting ( pictorialism ), but the reversal of the so -called straight photography - photography or direct - is performed. For this very objective approach ( see also New Objectivity ) in the early twenties of the desire to capture the social upheavals optimistic and dynamically. The New Look, result Ansinnens this explains the so-called navel perspective as insubstantial and interprets the exact illumination of the contemporary photographs as charmless and bland representation of reality.

Above all, the young Russian Constructivists to Rodchenko and the increasing number of photographers at the Bauhaus want future in interesting angles (extreme up or soffits ) perceive their environment. Also experimenting with light and shadow, which often results in the final result to large, shaded image areas. Compositionally to the New Vision sets to no regulations. Rather creative impulses to be imaged subjects are used to create a new interpretation of the reproductive Moments in photography.

Overall, the New Vision can be categorized as a very experimental style, which is always open to new impulses and are not presented uniformly. Intention of the New Vision is to expand the photography of a purely replicating to a producing medium. Here, a didactic approach are identified: the viewer must first be introduced to the new imaging methods, and deal with a perception of the person depicted. For subjects known him to be presented in an unknown representation.

Criticism

Criticized is the new form of vision often, the experimental character and the consequent inability to rule on a uniform style. Above all, by representatives of the New Objectivity and straight photography amateur experiments and the apparent lack of technical photographic training the photographers of the New Vision be denounced.

With the introduction of pure photography classes in the Bauhaus will be answered in some way to this criticism, which also leads, however, that the - so far extremely - creative approach to Bauhaus Photography is changing towards a very objective presentation.

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