The main characteristic of this movement was an intellectual faith in science, reason, rationality and progress that were intended to save the world and establish universal "truth". The main assumptions were the individual and freedom. From a political point of view it was the moment of creation of the egalitarian social order. From the perspective of art and photography, modernism consciously rejects the conventions of the past as a model for art, which were treated as obsolete and irrelevant in the face of changes (industrialization, capitalism, democracy, urbanization). It was a new era, the era of modern man and many artists intended to reflect those highly innovative times also through photography. An important part was a question of the aesthetics of photography and what constitutes it as art. The institutional character of museums, galleries and their curators (for example Szarkowski at MoMA) has dictated these rules, establishing the canons of "art photography". “ (…) The characteristics that define photographs according to John Szarkowski such as the thing itself, the detail, the frame, the time and the point of view tried to make the medium unique and above all different from painting. Modernists prefer symbolist photographs over narrative ones and realism over instrumentalism. Modernists believe that pure photography is the embodiment of what photography does best. “(Barrett 2005: