More shades of ' realism'. And ambitious culture question.

[Mark Kohut]

"Wexler's supervision of available light helped usher in new forms of American realism." 
From an LATimes profile of Haskell Wexler, great cinematographer and colorblind! 

Was it when we started modifying realism --when was that? --that we began to see postmodernism? 

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