Photography is a modern form of image making, contributing to the development of modernism. Modernist photography captures the essence of today’s going on, images with the modern thoughts entrusted into them, along with the modern character sensed in the images. Not a lot of rule breaking, not a lot of playing about with the image, in a way just presented the way it was captured.
Ansel adam a photographer, I would describe as being a modernist photographer as his images of landscapes are just that, landscapes taken at different shots and places, just mostly presented in black and white images. This is quite the thinking of not just photographers but all modernism designers and thinkers. Two of his landscape shots below
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Post modernism or the post modernist theory, originally originated from an architectural movement, and was meant to be a criticism towards the dominance of modernism, to challenge the modern concepts and views. Post modernist photographers take a more creative approach to photography, differently composed, different looking photographs of mundane images, then art work them with edgy effects and other utensils, the signs and symbols in the images are allocated in different position and not in conjunctions with those of modernist photography, post modernist photographers reject the rule and said to display more dispassionate images rather than heartfelt ones done by modernist.
Gregory Scott, Is a Painter and post modernist Photographer, He started off as a painter then became a photogrpaher, it was only natural that he connected the two, as you can see from the image below, he rejected the rules and composed the image differently like all post modernist photographers. He calls it ‘Flip Side’(2004).
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http://www.photographymuseum.com/modernism1.html
http://nicooved.com/words/postmodernism.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism
http://www.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=gregory%20scott%20photography&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi
http://www.mocp.org/collections/mpp/scott_gregory.php
http://www.anseladams.com/
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