Is pure photography true?

No, pure photography means pure photography or pure school photography.

The so-called pure photography refers to a mature photography school in the early 20th century. It was founded by American photographer Stie Grize. They advocate that photography should give full play to the characteristics and expression of photography itself, liberate him from the influence of painting, and pursue the unique aesthetic effect of photography with pure photography technology-high definition, rich tone levels, subtle light and shadow changes, pure black and white tones, meticulous texture expression and accurate image depiction.

From a certain point of view, some thoughts of purists are "hybrids" of workshop formalism and naturalism, and later evolved into "new objectivism". However, this genre has promoted people's exploration and research on the characteristics and performance skills of photography to a certain extent.

Pure photographers deliberately pursue the so-called "photographic quality": accurately, directly, subtly and naturally express the light, color, line, shape, grain and quality of the subject, without any other modeling art media.

The works in the late period of Pure School developed towards the abstraction of lines, patterns and distorted images. With the changes of the times, pure photography has been divided into two branches: one branch is "neo-objectivism photography" which is a close-up performance of parts of objects, highlighting "shape" and "quality", and the other branch has developed into "abstract photography" with lines, simplicity, distortion and patterning.