New Realism is an alternative name used to describe the photographic and artistic movement more widely known by its German designation Neue Sachlichkeit, or New Objectivity, which emerged in Germany during the 1920s. Both terms refer to the same fundamental approach - the cool, impartial, and rigorously objective observation and recording of subjects in the everyday world, emphasising the inherent formal qualities, structures, and surfaces of ordinary things without romantic idealisation, emotional subjectivity, or pictorialist manipulation.