Extracting out of context

Jerzy Olek

doi:10.37190/arc190313

Abstract

This article is aiming to investigate how well-known photographers portray the architecture of modernism. The author discusses different attitudes and visualizations, which can be found at exhibitions presenting objects created in the 1920s and 1930s. The author is not interested in classical documentation but in creative photography, in images whose character springs from their individually understood minimalist form. Going back in time, he shows how this form was born in Bauhaus and Constructivism, and how, differently, it was used by artists associated with the Neue Sachlichkeit. Against this background, he shows examples of the latest approaches.

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