The ideas of ​​modernism or subjectivism in photography

Subjective image is not often met with understanding among the general public - if you do not take into account the special inevitably existing category of the public, focused mainly on the capture of fashionable trends in art, regardless of their content.  Usually, If the exterior is beautiful and mystical coloring of  new pictorialism resonates with romantic mood of the audience, than these peculiar "subjective" photography techniques as a deliberate imbalance in the composition, the neglect of "significant" objects in favor of the photographic rubbish, and become the talk of the among the nations blur, grain, shake, over-contrasts, etc. - are a constant target of ridicule of the public. And not only unsophisticated audience, but many professional photographers are absolutely adamant that the only reason for the birth of "subjective- concept  Masterpieces" is the inability of authors to take" beautiful " pictures.

Despite the apparent relationship of these two directions, criticism, treat them very differently: Pictorialism - the most condescending, benevolent, and to Subjectivism - sharply negative, the latter being a constant sharp criticism for a departure from reality, that is - the loss of the very essence of photography, and as a consequence – unphotogenity . Thus, the subjectivist picture refuses to actually be a “right photo”.

At the same time, analysis of trends in contemporary photography in the light of trends in art in general suggests that these trends are neither dead-end branches, or manifestations of the general process of "death of modern art photography. " On the contrary - their appearance is a natural result of the development of art in general.

And here are some great imgaes which, to my opinion, create the "atmosphere of modernism".

                             Trent Parke,Dream Life album,2001

                           Sally Mann, Deep South album,2005

                              Georgy Panhasov,India, 1998 

Reading:

http://www.gagosian.com/artists/sally-mann/
http://www.in-public.com/TrentParke

Literary Modernism and Photoigraphy, ed. by Paul Hansom (p. 22-36 )