I am still grasping the context of modernism and post modernism, however this is what I have come to the conclusion of so far. When looking a modernist peice of work it is normally one of the following; either highky description like a beautiful landscape, based on a social change & technology, never focused on today but tomorrow, revolutionary, never seen before. Whereas post modernism takes thins from the past and re uses them for example people like Cindy Sherman, William Eggleston and Andy Warhol all fall into the category of post modernism. However there are so many things surrounding a photograph that you have to think about before you make the decision, is it only about aestics and form? Certainty? Revealing something new? Referring to culture? Modernism references subject, shape, form and no other deeper meaning than that. Whereas Post modernism is either a re-evaluation of an artist of modernist, it’s not mad unheard of and it has been seen before, could possibly be political and question aestics.
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