In part, they formed in opposition to the pictorialist photographic style that had dominated much of the early 20th century, but moreover, they wanted to promote a new modernist aesthetic that was based on precisely exposed images of natural forms and found objects.
En parte formouse en oposición ao estilo pictorialista que dominara durante a meirande parte de principios de século, pero por outra banda querían promocionar unha nova estética modernista que estaba en imaxes expostas con precisión de formas naturais e obxectos atopados.