Modern and Postmodern Photography

Modern photography suggest different view and perspective, it is pushing boundaries, delivering different messages within images. There's a lot of room to discuss modern photography with great works throughout the years.
In this post I would like to mention works of modern photographer Diane Arbus. She's most noted for series of black and white square images picturing seemingly surreal or ugly people. Arbus' works are shocking, provoking and most of the time uncomfortable. It's not the rule that modern photography is obliged to trigger unpleasant feelings, although it draws a different perspective and different view to a photography as an art form.

Diane Arbus, Mexican dwarf in his hotel room in N.Y.C., 1970

Postmodern photography differs from modern photography with more conceptualism in it, also it aims to reject concept of modern photography. Postmodernism is breaking all the rules created by modern photography, it can't be described as warm and close or sometimes even as beautiful. It might seem careless, created with no passion. To be honest it's was always quite difficult for me to "read" postmodern photographs or find story, signs, meanings of it. Trying to find answers and trying to understand meanings of it I found myself realising that postmodern photography is deeply personal in many cases.
As an example of postmodern photography I chose Stephen Shore who is known for is images of banal scenes and also he's the pioneer of coloured photography.

Stephen Shore, Proton Ave., Gull Lake, Saskatchewan, 1974

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