New Objectivity Photography vs New Vision Photography
新即物主義写真 / ニュー・ヴィジョン写真
Two photographic movements of the 1920s, both draining sentiment and cutting the shape of the object with hard light.
How to tell them apart. New Vision shoots from straight above or below at an extreme tilt. New Objectivity faces the subject square on and does not move.
New Objectivity Photography
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Steps back from sentiment and records the structure of people and things coolly: sharp focus, frontality, typology.
New Vision Photography
Looks for perception only a camera can produce, using views from far above and far below, extreme close-ups and experiments with light.
| New Objectivity Photography | New Vision Photography | |
|---|---|---|
| Era | 1920s–1930s | 1920s–1930s |
| Family | Photography Movements | Photography Movements |
| Kind | Style | Style |
| Cues | Sharp focus / Frontality / Repetition and types / Material detail | Steep angles / Close-up / Hard light and shadow / Abstraction |
| Best used for | Photographing trades or buildings under one condition to make them comparable · Showing the detail of a product or a part precisely and without sentiment | Making familiar buildings or machines read as new forms through angle alone · Introducing a material or a product through nearly abstract photographs |
| Type | No headlines, only the subject name and conditions in one fixed format | Align added lettering to the picture diagonal, off the horizontal |
| Composition | Frontal, level, centered, with the same background every time | Shoot from straight above or below and run the subject along a diagonal |
| Material | Deep depth of field, even overcast light, fine grained printing | Hard direct light, strong shadow, black and white with the blacks closed |
| Caution | One frame is no typology, and without matched conditions it ends as a pile of expressionless pictures. Do not trust the pose of objectivity, and read the bias that classification and viewpoint produce. | If the angle changes but reveals nothing about the subject, the picture becomes a shape nobody can name and the surprise is spent at first glance. |