10 Things You Should Know — theculturetrip.com

Enter your writing to The Culture Trip Award & you could win $3,000! #tctaward We are offering a $3,000 prize for a student or recent graduate whose article on The Culture Trip attains the highest readership within 3 months of publication, $2,000 for the second most-read article and $1,000 for the third most-read article. When photographers Bernhard and Hilla Becher began their collaboration in 1959, they markedly turned away from the work of the leading German photographer Otto Steinert, who had been a proponent of a subjective approach using blurred figures in motion, reverse exposure and other experimental techniques. Rather, the Bechers took inspiration from the older German tradition of the Neue Sachlichkeit – the New Objectivity – of the 1920s, particularly the work of photographers such as August Sander, Karl Blossfeldt, and Albert Renger-Patzsch. Their work was styled akin to a documentary, based on an objective vision of all levels of German society.

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