Photo Secession - Photographic Movement No 2 (Part 1)

Blog Entry No 11

Tutor: Ms: Scicluna

Date Uploaded/Updated: 10/2/2016

Alfred Stieglitz 

Photo Secession 

This type of movement was first inspired by a group of American photographers that worked to develop photography more and get it into the fine art line of the movement. This photographic group was led by Alfred Stieglitz, and within the group included various types of photographers such as Edward Steichen, Clarence H. White, Gertrude Kasebier and Alvin Langdon Coburn. 

Some of the photographers in the group had gone on separate ways and had either pursued Pictoricalism, or developing techniques of manipluation on negatives and prints to create different drawings, etchings and oil paintings effects. 

Anne Brigman 

The Photo Secession was influenced by other art movements that where based in Europe, such as the Linked Ring, that had potential goals. The ideas of this movement were acitively promoted by Stieglitz, whom had edited and published the important quarterly Camera Work and opened the Little Galleries of the Photo Secession - known as 291 as the gallery's address on Fifth Avenue.This gallery was associated for like minded photographers to exhibit their work. The first exhibition that was held at the 291 gallery was a sensation and significantly in high quality presentation to accepting photography as an art form,

Some members of this Photo Secession had separated and continued on to manipulate their negatives and prints to accomplish nonphotographic effects, as others had come to feel that such manpulation had destroyed the tone and texture of photographs, and was appicable towards photography. 

References 

Encyclopaedia Britannia. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Photo Secession - American Society.

http://www.britannica.com/topic/Photo-Secession (Accessed on 10 th Feburary 2016)