Modern or Postmodern?

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Discussion on post-modern photographs...

Jean: Why cut the pictures up into fragments? It is a postmodern approach.

Noam: But it doesn’t clarify, it tends to obscure. What are the principles of a postmodern approach to photography?

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Jean: It deconstructs, and through many fragments we can see more. We can see many spaces, we can sense time passing.

Noam: I’m still skeptical.

Jean: Postmodernism is supposed to make us skeptical, to make us question. To see reality differently.

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Voice-over

Modernism and postmodernism are movements particularly found in art, literature, architecture.

Modernism focused on simplification, minimalism and eliminating non-essential elements.

Postmodernism reacts against modernism and revives historical techniques.

Question: Are these pictures examples of modernism or postmodernism?

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