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Witness the radical experiments that shattered photographic tradition. From distorted perspectives to darkroom manipulation, discover how the avant-garde pushed the medium into the realm of pure art.

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Contents

Introduction
1Introduction to avant-garde photography
Techniques
2Introduction to solarization
3Examples of solarization
Movements
4Constructivism
Photographers
5Alvin Langdon Coburn: Vorticism
6Alfred Stieglitz: Equivalents
7Man Ray: Solarized nudes
8Maurice Tabard: Multiple exposures and solarizations
9Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Viewpoints
10Geraldo de Barros: Fotoformas (1946-51)
11Lotte Jacobi: Photogenics
12Minor White: Equivalents, similes and visual metaphors
13Heinz Hajek-Halke: Experimental photography
14André Kertész: Distortions
15Weegee: Distortions
16Bill Brandt: Distortions
17László Moholy-Nagy: Photograms
18Christian Schad: Schadographs
19Frantisek Drtikol: Nudes
20Frantisek Drtikol: Les Nus de Drtikol (1929)
21Hans Bellmer: La Poupée
22Eli Lotar: Le Theatre Alfred Jarry et l'Hostilite Publique (1930)
23Brassaï: Graffiti
24Inge Morath: Saul Steinberg Masks
25Ei-Q: (born: Sugita Hideo): Photo-dessin Abstraction in Japan
Events
26Film und Foto - FiFo (1929)

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