Atype of photography that advocated a more direct, sharply focused, unmanipulated style called photography developed during the early twentieth century.

Pictoralism is the name of the style that dominated photography during the late 19th and the early 20th century. After that the new style in photography have occurred, called photographic Modernismus ( 1910 - 1950 ). It came with more sharply focused images. Photographers begun to produce works exploiting the camera as a mechanical and technological tool. Style called Modernist photography.