formalism in photography is described as the critical postion that most important aspect of a work of a art is its from. the way it is made and is just visual aspects rather than its narrative content or its relationship to the world.

Formalism, also called Russian Formalism, Russian Russky Formalism, innovative 20th-century Russian school of literary criticism. It began in two groups OPOYAZ, an acronym for Russian words meaning Society for the Study of Poetic Language, founded in 1916 at St. Petersburg

this photo above this text was taken by a photographer called Alexander Rodchenko, this photo shows a massive electrical tower and it looks very nice, however when you normally look at a electric towers you don’t typically think of beauty.