While Pictorialism that was gradually declining with his style of photos soft and blurred, exactly a style completely opposite called ‘straight photography’ with images sharper, clear and high contrast was taking step.
Was around 1920 when ‘Straight photography‘ or pure photography, was moving the vision of photographers in a modern style, it was done simply without manipulation of the photos in printing or in darkroom, just only what the camera could do. Pure photography is defined as possessing no qualities of technique, composition or idea, derivative of any other art forms. The above photo taken by me around Sydney are a representation of pure photography, which for me is a similitude of the street photograpy of today, as well as the photographers were also modernists a century ago as the famous Paul Strand that already around 1915 photographed moments of life in the city of New York.
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