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modernist
New approaches to
photography
Herbert Ma)er, a photographer’s posters of the 1930s use montage,
dynamic scale changes, and an effec?ve integra?on of typography and
illustra?on. Photographic images become pictorial symbols removed
from their naturalis?c environments and linked together in unexpected
ways.
Mid-Century Moderns covers the consolidation of
modernism as the official style for graphic design at a
time of worldwide political disarray.