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Optical allusions

Article Abstract:

Spanish photographers in the 1990s have broken the artistic tradition preceding them. Photography has been a tool of cultural preservation, and has captured the agrarian roots from which the country was born, and survived through 35 years of fascist rule until 1975. Romantic images often prevailed. However, in the 1990s, photographers such as Joan Fontcuberta and Eduard Ibanez, focus on their subjects from many angles and shatter traditional points of view.

Spain, Photographers, Criticism and interpretation

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The fruited plain

Article Abstract:

Rural landscapes have been chronicled throughout American history, including modern photography with its views on country living. Economic productivity emphasized by colonial painters was replaced by economic despair during the Great Depression and an interest in poverty. As agriculture has become a pursuit of a dwindling minority, new values emerge in photography such as social alienation and a new romantic image of country life.

Portrayals, Country life, Rural life, Landscape photography

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