new objectivity

is a prevailing ideology by which it becomes impossible to say anything about a dam or a cable factory except this: The world is beautiful.

But now follow the path of photography further. What do you see' It becomes more and more subtle, more and more modern, and the result is that it can no longer photograph a run-down apartment house or a pile of manure without transfiguring it. Not to speak of the fact that it would be impossible to say anything about a dam or a cable factory except this: the world is beautiful. The World is Beautiful that is the title of a famous book of photographs by Renger-Patsch, in which we see the photography of the 'new objectivity' at its height.

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new objectivity