The New Objectivity or Neue Sachlichkeit, first came about as a style that challenged Expressionism in Germany in the 1920s. When it emerged it presented a return to unsentimental reality and a focus on the objective world, in contrast to more abstract, romantic, or idealistic forms of Expressionism. Two major trends were identified under Neue Sachlichkeit, Otto Dix and George Grosz, violently attacked and transformed the evils of their society and those in power demonstrating in harsh terms the devastating effects of World War I. It took it's name from the exhibition Neue Sachlichkeit held in Mannheim in Germany in 1923.
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Jaromir FunkeFunke was born into a wealthy German family, his father being a lawyer who married a Czech woman, this being Funke's mother. He first went off to study medicine, law, and philosophy at the Charles University in Prague (Capital of the Czech Republic) and the University of Bratislava but did not graduate and instead turned to photography.
Then in 1935, Funke in collaboration with Ladislav Sutnar, published a book called 'Fotografie vidí povrch' (Photography sees the surface).The book contained work from Funke and his students, but in creating this book Funke created one of the few Czechoslovak books of photographs related to Neue Sachlichkeit (The New Objectivity). |
Quinlan is considered one of several contemporary photographers, who are extending the innovations of the earlier Pictures Generation into new territory. She uses medium and large format analog cameras to create abstract photographs, and then agitates the film by using objects such as steel wool or long chemical processing. Some of her photographic subjects include smoke, mirrors and coloured lights.
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Eileen QuinlanQuinlan received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1996 from the School of The Museum of Fine Arts, in Boston, Massachusetts, then broadening her knowledge in the field by receiving her her Master of Fine Arts in 2005 from Columbia University. She is now a self-described still-life photographer with work in galleries all over.
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Edward J. Steichen - The Flatiron 1904, printed 1909
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Charles Sheeler - For Plant, River Rouge Blast Furnace and Dust Catcher. 1927
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