New Vision Photography
ニュー・ヴィジョン写真 / 1920s–1930s / Style / Photography Movements
Looks for perception only a camera can produce, using views from far above and far below, extreme close-ups and experiments with light.
At a glance
Visual cues
- Steep angles
- Close-up
- Hard light and shadow
- Abstraction
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
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Align added lettering to the picture diagonal, off the horizontal
- Composition
- Shoot from straight above or below and run the subject along a diagonal
- Material
- Hard direct light, strong shadow, black and white with the blacks closed
- 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.
- Further study
- László Moholy-Nagy / Film und Foto 1929 / Thomas Walther Collection
Related entries
- Bauhaus (バウハウス)Editorially linked for a useful contrast.Compare New Vision Photography and Bauhaus
- Photogram (フォトグラム)Shared effects: Technique.Compare New Vision Photography and Photogram
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