New Vision
An interwar movement, associated with the Bauhaus, that treated the camera as a device for seeing in ways the eye cannot.
In depth
Neues Sehen embraced extreme angles, radical foreshortening, negative prints, photograms and montage, arguing that photography's purpose was to extend perception rather than to record what was already visible. Its experiments defined much of what still reads as a modern photographic viewpoint.
Examples in practice
A steeply angled view down a stairwell, reducing a building to abstract geometry, follows directly from this programme.