Surrealism developed after World War 1 in Paris and featured surreal camera movements and compositions that created strange, illogical scenes from ordinary settings. Pop art emerged in the 1950s as a reaction to abstract expressionism and featured popular images from media like newspapers and magazines. Abstract photography focuses on lines, shapes, color, form and texture, with only parts of the image in focus. Minimalist photography aims to convey meaning using as few elements as possible. Constructivism was a Russian architectural photography movement from 1919 that influenced 20th century art through styles like Bauhaus, exemplified by influential photographer and artist Alexandr Rodchenko.

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3. *The surreal camera movement was an
extravagant one, where photographers
composed photos that are out of the ordinary,
very surrealistic. Scenes are illogical, and
create strange settings and creatures from
ordinary settings.
*Surrealism was developed around World War I,
it started in Paris, and then spread across the
world

5. *The pop art movement started in the 1950’s. It
was a new movement that challenged
traditional art, by including popular pictures
from the modern era, such as newspapers and
magazines.
*Some say it is a reaction of the abstract ideas
of expressionism, and an expansion of the
movement itself.

7. *Abstract photography is like abstract art, in
which it concentrates, on lines, shapes, colour,
form, and texture.
*Often, not all of the picture is in focus. Often
only a small part of it is.
*Abstract photos come in a variation of
patterns, textures, crop, shape, blur, and
expression of movement.

9. *Minimalist photography is a way of thinking in
terms of photography.
*The world minimal means little, as few as
possible. A minimalist photo is one that that
has as few elements as possible.
*The aim is to display as few conventions as
possible to convey meaning

11. *Constructivism was an Russian architectural
photography that came to light in 1919.
*Constructivism had an effect on modern
artistic movements in 20th century, that
influenced trends such as Bauhaus.
*Alexsandr Rodchenko was a former artist and
photographer who had a great influence in
constructivism. He was one of the most
versatile constructivist artist to emerge after
the revolution of Russia.