Objectivity in Photography

Objectivity in photography is a genre that features more of the reality of life and focuses on objects without a sense of expression or emotion. These images tend to show different plants and objects and even as they are found and un-manipulated.

Some people think that this genre of photography is a bland and uncreative art form; however, some believe it to be highly interesting by exploring the idea that even the simplest of images can fascinate the human mind.

Karl Blossfeldt

Blossfeldt was a German photographer famed for his monochrome images of dried plants. These sound and look boring but at the same time fitting into the idea of objectivity by simultaneously sparking a curiosity and interest within his audience.

Albert Renger-Patzsch

Renger-Patzsch was also a German photographer but well associated with the idea of New Objectivity; a concept that adds to the drabness of the original idea but monochrome images of more than just plants and small inanimate objects. His images consist of landscapes and buildings but among them some plants and small objects, reverting back to the original idea.