Minimalism is a style used by many 20th century artists and photographers, it focuses on having a minimum amount of concepts in an image such as colour texture and shape. The style became popular within architecture,art and photography in the 20th century and is still considered a modern style. two of the first artist to make minimalist art where Frank Stella and Piet Mondrian who both used colour blocking in their work. Keld Helmer Peterson and  Mirko Nahmijas were two influential photographers who took minimalist photographs in the 20th century, they both focused on architecture as their subject.