Tutor: Ms. Scicluna
Date Uploaded/Updated: 11/2/2016
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| Fig 1 - Alfred Stieglitz - Spring Showers (1902) |
The processes of Photo-Secession were proponents of Pictorialism as they were a value of the art movement, which was argued that photography needed to imitate the painting and etching of that era of style. Pictorialists had trusted that in just a simple painting is more distinctive as of the painter's interpretation of the materials used to accomplish such an effect. so it too should be that the photographer could alter and enhance the photographic image. In various methods that were applied on a photograph were soft focus, special filters and lens coatings, burning, dodging and or cropping in the darkroom to manipulate the content of the image, and enhance the print processes including sepia toning, carbon printing, platinum printing or gum bichromate processing.
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| Fig 2 - Alvin Langdon Coburn - Mark Rwain (1913) |
Styles of Photo-Secession
The style of the content in the photographs has a variety of styles that refer to previous work that was created by other artists, which includes Greek and Roman Art. Photographs contained stylistic amount of dramatic lighting, perspective, geometry, use of monochrome/black and white, and high contrast.
References
Shawn.Kent. (2012) Pictoricalism, the Photo Secession and Groupf/64 http://shawnkent.net/pictorialism-photo-secession-and-group-f64/ (Accessed 11th Febuaray 2016)
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