“Pạnirñ ātists fṛm acrs Yṛp, ɖ Americ̣z n Jpan r biyñ šôn at Têt St Îvz fr ɖ frst tîm in Ɖ Modn Lenz.
Ɖs z ɖ ljst dsple v fôṭgrafic wrcs evr t b xibitd at ɖ gaḷri. Lcñ at dveḷpmnts in inṭnašnl ftogṛfi fṛm ɖ 1920z t ɖ 1960z, ɖ xibišn uncuvrz ɖ sens v krioṣti n xperimntešn az ātists hānist ɖ mīdı̣m in ny wez.
Ftogṛfi wz yzd t xplor îdiyz v abstraẋn, dveḷpt in tandm wɖ ɖ imrjns v wîdr moḍnist lanĝjz acrs ɖ glôb. It olso demnstretd ɖ significns v a lôcl pspctv, az ātists cmbînd ɖ brwd inflụnsz v abstraẋn, cnstructvizm n sriylizm wɖ ɖer ôn contxts. Ɖr r imijz v rṛl landsceps, ōganic fwmešnz, man-md objcts n industrı̣l mtirı̣lz, az wel az v ŕbn ācitcčr.
Lūsli arenjd bî lcešn, Ɖ Modn Lenz ôpnz wɖ ftogṛfi n abstraẋn in Latin America: ācitcčr, lît n cnstructd fwmz undrpin wrcs bî ātists sč az Žraldo di Barŭs n Tomaz Fāc̣s in Bṛzil.
In subsiqnt gaḷriz, pêntñz n sculpčrz fṛm Britiš ātists in ɖ 1930z, includñ Pwl Naš, Ben Niclsn, Îvn Hičnz, Bābra Hepẉʈ n Henri Mur, xplor a mmnt in Britiš moḍnizm šêpt bî ɖ opozñ fwsz v pyr abstraẋn n sriylizm. Ɖz wrcs r šôn in rlešn t a fôṭgrafic sīqns md bî ācitect n dzînr Šālot Periã, ātist Fernã Ležé n ācitect Pier Žaneré, hu wr c̣laḅretñ in Paris in ɖ sem pirı̣d; ɖer wrc z ɖ rzult v a siriz v pfwmd wōcs in ẇč ɖe stêjd incântrz wɖ jı̣mtric fwmz in nêčr.
Ɖ imbresñ v ny tecnoḷjiz t rle ɖ fwml qoḷtiz v lît, spês n tôn wr sentṛl lesnz v ɖ Bâhâs in Jrṃni fṛm its ôpnñ in 1919.
Includñ rer fôtogramz, prints n filmfŭtij bî rnând tytrz Lasló Moholi-Noj n Valter Peterhanz alñ wɖ ɖer stydnts, ɖ xibišn cnsidrz hâ ɖ scūl inflụnst mîgṛnt moḍnist ftogṛfrs sč az Iweo Yaṃwaci fṛm Jpan n ɖ Hungẹrı̣n Ydit Cāras.
Ɖ Modn Lenz culminets wɖ ɖ wrc v Hari Caḷhn, wn v America’z most influenšl ftogṛfrz. Invîtd t tīč at Moholi-Noj’z Ny Bâhâs (Šicago Instityt v Dzîn), Caḷhn wrct īqli in blac n ẇît az wel az in culr, n wz ci t ɖ dveḷpmnt v fwml abstraẋn in pôstwor Americn ftogṛfi.”
