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Chapter 10 Summary: Chapter 10 is concerned with both modernism and industrial beauty. These concepts arose from the art and discipline of photography early in the 1880s and prevailed towards the early 1920s. This period is defined by a dramatic shift of subject matter away from historical and classical subject matter in favor of modern events and experimental representations of subject matter. Particularly, photographs of this time were evaluated with a criteria that can now be described as aesthetic formalism. This means that from is given emphasis over content. This means that the photographer intentionally contrives meaning which is interpretable by the viewer. The emphasis is more on the viewer to critically appreciate modern works but

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