Suomeksi • English Press

Post-avantgarde photographs 1) Structure 2) Orbit 3) The worker and the assembly line t hree enlargements of ink jet prints, each 129 x 90 cm and 50 slides SARIANNA TAMMINEN sarianna.tamminen@cult2.tpu.fi The basic ideology of the post-avantgarde can be found in the revolutionary spirit of the early 20th century and the destruction of the art notions of the bourgeoisie. The photographs transport these century-old ideals into the the 21st century and the new media. The avantgarde must reinvent itself also in the postmodern world. The genre of the abstract photograph is problematic because of its objective and realistic character. The post-avantgarde photographs claim that the photograph is absolutely abstract if the subject matter is of a non-descriptive nature. However, this does not exclude realism as the post-avantgarde photographs represent the metaphysics of photography.