How did pure photography come into being?

Pure photography is a mature photography art school in the early 20th century, which developed in opposition to photo photography.

The emergence of purism can be traced back to the naturalistic photography advocated by Emerson. Emerson once took a clear-cut stand against elegant art photography and advocated natural realism.

Since then, photographers, led by Shi Tigri, have advocated making full use of the characteristics of cameras, lenses and photographic films to directly and truly reproduce the objective image through careful observation and discovery. All these have created conditions for the emergence of pure photography.

The basic feature of pure photography is based on the language independence of photography itself, paying attention to the documentary characteristics of photography itself, and striving to truly and perfectly express objective things through the artistic language of photography such as detail level, tone and texture. In terms of photography techniques, pure photography pays attention to realism, pursuing as clear an image as possible, as wide a depth of field as possible, as large a negative as possible, and as direct as possible.

With the rise of direct photography in11920s and F/64 group in11930s, purists gradually replaced photo photography and became the mainstream of artistic photography.