The Modern Look and the Strangeness Effect

This paper focuses on a specific characteristic of the modern photograph, the strangeness effect. It seeks to retrace the paths taken since it was incorporated in the photograph, becoming a remarkable aesthetic feature to Russian and German vanguards of the interwar, until it was fully established a...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: Zerwes, Erika
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2015
Country:Brasil
Institution:Centro Universitário La Salle (Unilasalle)
Repository:Mouseion (Canoas)
Language:Portuguese
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.revistas.unilasalle.edu.br:article/2319
Online Access:https://revistas.unilasalle.edu.br/index.php/Mouseion/article/view/1981-7207.15.4
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Visual Culture
Modern Photograph
Photograph Avant-Garde
Cultura visual
Fotografia moderna
Vanguardas fotográficas
Cultura visual e fotografia
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Summary:This paper focuses on a specific characteristic of the modern photograph, the strangeness effect. It seeks to retrace the paths taken since it was incorporated in the photograph, becoming a remarkable aesthetic feature to Russian and German vanguards of the interwar, until it was fully established as part of a modern visual lexicon. At the same time, its progressive loss of political intention as it was incorporated in the visual culture during the second half of the 20th century is stressed.