Genres, Movements & Theory
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Landscape Photography
Photography of natural or altered land, sea and sky, often concerned with light, weather and a sense of place.
Genres, Movements & TheoryMacro Photography
Photography at magnifications approaching or exceeding life size, revealing detail invisible to the unaided eye.
Genres, Movements & TheoryMagnum Photos
A photographers' cooperative founded in 1947 to let its members retain copyright and control over their own work.
Genres, Movements & TheoryManipulation Standards
The rules defining what processing is permissible in a given field of photography.
Genres, Movements & TheoryNew Colour Photography
The movement of the 1970s that established colour as a serious medium for art photography rather than a commercial or amateur one.
Genres, Movements & TheoryNew Objectivity
A German movement of the 1920s favouring clear, unsentimental description of the world, often in close-up and typological form.
Genres, Movements & TheoryNew Topographics
A 1975 exhibition and the approach it named, photographing the altered landscape — suburbs, industrial parks, car parks — in a deliberately…
Genres, Movements & TheoryNew Vision
An interwar movement, associated with the Bauhaus, that treated the camera as a device for seeing in ways the eye cannot.
Genres, Movements & TheoryPhoto Essay
A sequence of photographs arranged to develop an argument or narrative that no single image could carry.
Genres, Movements & TheoryPhoto-Secession
A group founded by Alfred Stieglitz in New York in 1902 to promote photography as a fine art.
Genres, Movements & TheoryPhotographic Ethics
The body of principles governing how photographers treat subjects, audiences and the truthfulness of their images.
Genres, Movements & TheoryPhotographic Series
A set of images made to a consistent rule or format, where the repetition itself carries meaning.
Genres, Movements & TheoryPhotographic Truth
The contested assumption that a photograph is a reliable record of what was in front of the camera.
Genres, Movements & TheoryPhotojournalism
Photography made to report news, bound by professional standards of accuracy and non-interference.
Genres, Movements & TheoryPictorialism
A movement from the 1880s to the 1910s that sought recognition for photography as art by imitating painting and printmaking.
Genres, Movements & TheoryPortraiture
Photography whose subject is a person, aiming to convey something of their character, role or presence.
Genres, Movements & TheoryPostmodern Appropriation
An artistic strategy of rephotographing or reusing existing images to question authorship, originality and the circulation of pictures.
Genres, Movements & TheoryProduct Photography
Photography of goods for sale, prioritising accurate description of form, colour and material.
Genres, Movements & TheoryProvoke
A short-lived Japanese photography magazine of 1968-70 whose grainy, blurred, high-contrast style challenged documentary convention.
Genres, Movements & TheoryPunctum
Roland Barthes's term for the detail in a photograph that pierces the individual viewer and gives it personal force.
Genres, Movements & TheorySelf-portrait
A photograph in which the photographer is also the subject.
Genres, Movements & TheorySnapshot Aesthetic
A deliberate adoption of the informal look of amateur photography — casual framing, direct flash, apparent artlessness.
Genres, Movements & TheorySports Photography
Photography of athletic competition, capturing peak action, effort and outcome.
Genres, Movements & TheoryStaged Photography
Photography in which the scene is deliberately constructed and performed for the camera.