That's a description of pictorialism, which the original comment is saying has won over realism. Group f/64: In part, they formed in opposition to the pictoria

That's a description of pictorialism, which the original comment is saying has won over realism. Group f/64: 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. (wikipedia from OP link)