Not only the pure documentation characterizes motivation and topic of photographers. Where design plays the biggest role, the viewpoint becomes important, color plays a fundamental role, and the subject develops meaning. The traditional photography with its portrait shots, the landscape and natural light images and finally the image perception of photojournalism are also the basis for modern photography, which opens up new ways of presenting itself with new technical means and methods. Since the exhibition of documenta 6 in 1977, photography has finally established itself as part of contemporary art. Digitization played its part. The possibilities of image expression intensified from 1980 to unimagined extent. Imaging programs provided a new medium for infinite forms of design. They make the use of technical aids such as different lenses or individual work steps such as screenings or multiple exposures superfluous. In modern, contemporary photography, documentations and stagings can often be found as inner-image contents: representations of things or living beings that are in context with each other and thus make up the image statement. In particular, stagings are usually characterized as artistic photographs. On the other side are pictures that are characterized by abstraction of the image content, eg. B. vortex images. It marks the evocation of impressions or emotions. These sculptures are created through the use of special modes of production that are not photographs in the true sense. Even "concrete photographs" are artistic results of a process in which the photograph itself remains the subject of interest.
