Film Und Foto Exhibition - 1929 Stuttgart

Описание: In 1929 a major exhibition, Film und Foto (FIFO), was held in Stuttgart, whose organizer Gustav Stotz refuted the “softness” of so-called “art photography”. He invited representatives of the New Photography to exhibit their experiences. This international event brings together, among others, Edward Weston and Paul Outerbridge, or Piet Zwart and Germaine Krull, supporters of another innovative movement of the twenties: the New Vision. Following the appearance on the market of small, handy devices (Leica) allowing new points of view on the world, this other visual language discards the frontal and horizontal mode of representation inherited from the 19th century. Photographers like Alexander Rodchenko in the USSR, François Kollar or Pierre Boucher in France, captured the world from as yet unpublished perspectives (diving, counter-dive, lateral vision), structured their shots with dynamic diagonals and fragmented reality with close-up framing. Finally, other photographers, such as Florence Henri, influenced by the pictorial currents of cubism and constructivism, seek to disturb the flat perception of reality by the intrusion of reflections (mirrors, shop windows) multiplying the planes and shapes of simple objects (apples, plates), graphic pretexts for the abstract restructuring of reality. The public perception of objects in the 1920s and 1930s was overturned by these new modes of representation as it was, in parallel, by the avant-garde reinterpretations of documentary photography.
-Aesthetics of Photography