New Vision Photography vs Photogram
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New Vision Photography comes from Photography Movements and Photogram from Photographic Techniques. One is style and the other technique. They are reached for with some of the same intent, which is where they get confused.
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.
Photogram
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No camera is involved. Objects laid on the sensitive surface and exposed to light turn contour, transparency and distance into the picture.
| New Vision Photography | Photogram | |
|---|---|---|
| Era | 1920s–1930s | 1830s– / avant-garde revival |
| Family | Photography Movements | Photographic Techniques |
| Kind | Style | Technique |
| Cues | Steep angles / Close-up / Hard light and shadow / Abstraction | Cameraless / Object contours / Reversed values / Contact and distance |
| Best used for | Making familiar buildings or machines read as new forms through angle alone · Introducing a material or a product through nearly abstract photographs | Recording small objects of differing transparency by contour and tone alone · Work that shows the experiment with light itself, without a camera |
| Type | Align added lettering to the picture diagonal, off the horizontal | For letters, lay cut stencils on the paper and leave them reversed |
| Composition | Shoot from straight above or below and run the subject along a diagonal | Treat the sheet edge as the frame and choose contact or a gap |
| Material | Hard direct light, strong shadow, black and white with the blacks closed | Photo paper, lamp height, exposure time, distance controlling edge hardness |
| Caution | 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. | This is not black and white abstraction in general. Merely arranging unusual objects records only shadows, while transparency and distance from the sensitized surface are what make the image. |