Foto storie di un istante - "Nuove visioni"

In the 1920s, a wind of madness rose over European photography. The buildings photographed by Chekhov leaned dangerously. There were no longer any horizontal or vertical lines to hold on to. In this photograph taken at the Bauhaus by Moholy Nagy, there was

no longer anything that clearly stated whether this image of a couple photographed by the German Ombo should be looked at this way or that. This break with photographic conventions that caused the old horizon line to collapse is what was called a new vision. A new way of seeing and living, common to both Lux

Feininger and his students playing the banjo on the roof of the Bauhaus and to the new socialist man photographed by the Russian Ruth Cenco.

This new vision was that of a world that was both industrial and urban. A world of speed and machines, of straight lines, of railways and cities.

He was charged with translating this world into images. Here comes the new photographer. This is the title of a book published in 1929 in which the German photographer Bernhard Graf reveals to the general public the secrets of new photography. Here he explains an old-fashioned photograph framed according to the rules of perspective of Renaissance painters

and everything straight in this image which corresponds to what a person would see looking straight ahead as shown in this photomontage by the author