Matić, Jelena Photography of Modernism and Postmodernism. Theory and the Ways of Representation

Title Photography of Modernism and Postmodernism. Theory and the Ways of Representation
Author email j.matic05@gmail.com
About author Matić, Jelena. Photography of Modernism and Postmodernism. Theory and the Ways of Representation. Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art: Collection of Articles. Vol. 3. Svetlana V. Maltseva (ed.), Ekaterina. Yu. Stanyukovich-Denisova (ed.) St. Petersburg, NP-Print Pabl., 2013, pp. 510–514. ISSN 2312-2129.
In the section Western Art of the 15th-20th Centuries
Year 2013 Volume 3 Pages 510–514
Type of article RAR Index UDK 7.038.53:77 Index BBK 85.03
Abstract

During the modernism photography became an essential medium for the fashion, advertising, magazines, journalism. The number of photographers, photo groups and movements increased. The photography, especially then due to the new unusual techniques (solarisation, montage, pho-togram, etc.) became very popular among avant-garde artists. Some art institutions, as Museum of Modern Art in New York, have established departments of photography. Despite all of this in practice and in theory of modernism photography has not got the same status as other forms of art. This situation has changed in the last three decades of the 20th c. with structuralism and post-structuralism, semiotic, feminism, conceptual and post-modern art when technical media became very popular in artistic practice. In this paper I will try to pinpoint the most important theories of photography in modernism and post-modernism.
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Reference Matić, Jelena. Photography of Modernism and Postmodernism. Theory and the Ways of Representation. Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art: Collection of articles. Vol. 3. Eds: Svetlana V. Maltseva, Ekaterina Yu. Stanyukovich-Denisova. St. Petersburg, NP-Print Publ., 2013, pp. 510–514. ISSN 2312-2129.
Publication Article language english
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