The graduate paper aims to clarify and analyze the formation of modern photography. Modern photography is defined as a concept, ie a period in which the technical characteristics of the photographic system then ceased to be a limiting factor in the creative work of the author-photographer. Although there are no sharp boundaries of this period can be taken as the symbolic beginning of the emergence of Leica photographic camera in the mid twenties of the 20th century. At the time, but was developed in black and white negative-positive photographic system, and in the next thirty years there and color photographic systems that have taken place to date in the classical picture. This has contributed to technical development and the development of photographic styles, which are analyzed in this paper. This is primarily thought of subjectivism photography and photographic work at the Bauhaus, but also to the emergence and development of photography in the first illustrated magazines and the emergence of Magnum. In addition to these styles, there are also styles of documentary photography to develop and dynamism that is all pervasive and so. engaged photography. Through graduate work analyzing these photographic styles and photographic work of the most important representatives of these styles and their impact on the photo as it is known today.