The difference between modern photography and modernist photography

Modern photography is mainly a kind of photography with modern technology and techniques, which is biased towards technical techniques; Modernist photography is mainly based on modernist or postmodern thinking and aesthetics, and tends to ideological aesthetics.

Modern photography includes the following four categories.

1, graphic specimen:

The innate ability of objective realism in photography not only reveals the details of images amazingly, but also reflects the appeal of image sociology through the combination of field investigation and objective third-person vision.

2, fool snapshot:

This photography technique completely deviates from the fine particles, emphasis on texture, beautiful light, rigorous composition and other elements required by classic photography, and uses a "fool camera" (small automatic camera) that anyone can operate to take pictures.

3. Pretend to take photos:

It is not a genre or doctrine, but a general description of expression techniques and shooting methods. This kind of work tends to the actual shooting content of the photo itself, mostly the elements that the author has conceived before shooting, and then the actual shooting is carried out by means of installation and placement; The author is like a film director who is in control of the overall situation. Photographers don't take the "decisive moment" as a blessing and "recreate" a witness scene, but take back the initiative from the object and create with an omniscient and omnipotent vision.

4. Digital composite image:

Modernist photography is shot with the following ideas.

Modernist design movement developed into 1950s and 1960s. Due to the development of technology and the change of people's aesthetic concept, people are tired of the single design art form of modernism, and simply pursue rationality and ignore the psychological needs of consumers, resulting in the sameness of product forms and more and more criticism, so the so-called "post-modernism" design art appears.

What is postmodernism?

Postmodernism is an artistic, social, cultural and philosophical trend of thought that occurred in Europe and America in the 1960s and was popular in the West in the 1970s and 1980s. Its essence is to abandon the basic premise of modernity and its normative content. In post-modern art, this abandonment is manifested in rejecting modernist art as an independent value to divide cultural fields, and rejecting modernist formal restriction principle and partisan principle. Its essence is anti-rationalism, moral cynicism and emotional hedonism of intellectuals.