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Toshio Shibata photographs landscapes which contain forms that might have been drawn, such as the geometric shapes of dams and retaining walls. He finds that he can convey emotions with outer subjects, by making sure that the artist's desire for expression is clearly present when making a photo. Since the audience will initially look at the outer image, the desire must be strong to cause the viewer to realize what was on the artist's mind. For him, photography is thus the best medium for self expression in art.
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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.
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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.
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