New Ship : photography

Milan Pavić (Daruvar, 1914 – Zagreb, 1986) is an art photographer who characterised the 1950s in Croatian photography. At a time of rigid limitation in subjects he applied and used ideas and approaches from the stylistic tradition of the thirties. Inspired by contemporary painting, he applied the new aesthetics to his own works. Through his pieces it is possible to follow the development of the medium in its entirety and in the range of themes and genres, at the same time to note the essential characteristics of the art of photography in the fifties.
As a professional reporter for the Photographic Documentation Agency, Pavić recorded a multitude of official occasions. At that time before television, with the odd film, press photograph was the only mass medium. Even when he worked on a set assignment, documenting industrial architecture, “labour victories” such as ship launches or the construction of new schools, he managed to go beyond the manner sought and to build a new vision with multiplied planes.