Media Platforms of Discussion about the Aesthetics of the 1920s Photography in Czechoslovakia within the Contexts of Europe
Media Platforms of Discussion about the Aesthetics of the 1920s Photography in Czechoslovakia within the Contexts of Europe

Summary/Abstract: The objective of the article is to analyse the background of dramatic discussions about the aesthetics of academic naturalism and the programme of New Objectivity in photography and possibilities of their media reflection. This turbulent opinion period was primarily accompanied by attempts on separation from the academism of fin de siècle, mainly through reflection in professional journals of the interwar period of the 20th century that discussed the visual language of the photographic medium within amateur photography, the retreating influence of the impressionist and naturalistic photography, and the ever-growing dominant programme of New Objectivity that combined elements of expressionism, dadaism, and surrealism. The study compares disputes in Czechoslovak journals to disputes within Europe (England, Germany). However, to a certain extent, these aesthetic disputes also stemmed from personal preferences of a programme that individual authors professed. The main objective of the article is to clarify and examine the principles of the disputes, as well as the period in question, which was significantly affected by technological progress of the press and especially by the arrival of the cheap and new system cameras.

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