Straight photography

Straight photography refers to photography that attempts to depict a scene as realistically and objectively as permitted by the medium, forsaking the use of manipulation both pre-exposure (e.g., filters, lens coatings, soft focus) and post-exposure (e.g., unusual developing and printing methods).

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Photography - Realistically - Exposure - Filters - Lens - Focus - Developing - Printing

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The opposite of straight photography is pictorialism. The differentiation between these two approaches came into being in the early 20th century.

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Pictorialism - 20th century

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A circle of famous photographers who espoused straight photography, Group f/64, was founded in 1932.

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Group f/64 - 1932

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