
photography as a reaction against "objective" and utility imposed during the Third Reich, began in 1945 a group of German artists who rescued and defended the idea and practice of "subjective photography".
's "subjective photography" was originally developed at the Bauhaus in 1920's. Those photos, this programmatic work of the Bauhaus photographers assigned him primarily as a function of photography, was stigmatized and persecuted by the Nazis, who branded as "degenerate," just as all the artistic vanguard and experimental twenties and thirties.
was an artistic reaction to the supposed "objectivity" demanded that the Nazi aesthetic of photography and the mandate to "register" in pictures "achievements" scientific, technological, political, military and sporting the Third Reich, as well as opposed to portray the "models" postulated racial racist regime. That objective was nothing but propaganda.