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~The page is all about the art movement of Pictorialism. The history from where it was formed and founded by to the elements of what makes this movement so unique~
Introduction
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| Fig 1: Baker: Luna Land in Winter (alb.silver print, 1880) The End Fact? Pictorialism, http://www.radford.edu/rbarris/art451%20Hist%20of%20Photog/pictorialism.html (Accessed on 14/01/16) |
Pictorialism art movement spans about 50 or 60 years (late 1800's to mid 20th Century) of experimentation with different type of discovered processes that were invented by pictorial practitioners and photographer alike.
This type of art movement is referred as an international style and it is also known as an aesthetic movement that had developed the most peculiar between the last 1800's and the early 1900's. Almost 15 years that the Kodak had released the very first 'snapshot camera' and this had defined that way that photography was seen as a tool for documentation. This cause has fuelled up the spawn of the 'instant' photograph, Alfred Stieglitz, whom was an American photographer that had spent his life time completing with photography as an art form, and also had gathered a group of other self-minded photographers.
This group was of a typical British photography group, which were called the Secessionists. The whole group had formed an American counterpart, known as the Photo - Secession, insisting that society is to view photography as a medium of creativity and expressive as that of a painting.
It was around two hundred years that was the foundation of this medium, that critics maybe still causing a lash out at one another over one particular question that they have been asking each other - 'It photography art?' This was looked at in the 19th century from the Pictorialists, that such a debate on justice of photography was formed to make this medium as a form of fine art. It endures the medium itself that exists and the tools/or products that is proceeded to change within shifts of technology.
Examples:
- Instagram posting over 40 million photos a day.
- Snapchat has about 400 million daily snaps nowadays.
- Digital photography's natural procreation of this medium.
This makes the question not only differs on whether or might not, that photography is art. Pictorialist wondered if anyone could do it at that time period.
The part of the pictorial photography could of be known as its otherworldly aspect, in which that this artistic view to the photographic photo is the first of its kind that placed attention on the aspect towards composition, colour and the photographer's main craft and skill.
Pictorialistic Photographers/Practitioners during the Pictorialism period:
- Peter Emerson
- Oscar Rejlander 1857
- Lady Filmer 1864 (Montage artist/photographer)
- Julia Margaret Cameron - Photographer
- Robert Demachy - Photographer/Practitioner
- Henry Peach Robinson
- James Craig Annan
- Fredrick H Evans
- Alfred Stieglitz
- Ann Bricgman
- Edward Steichen
- Frank Eugene
- Leonard Missone
- Robert Demachy
The whole main product focus of the Pictorialism movement in the first 50 years were:
- Timid cartes-de-visites or calling cards.
- Stereographs offering views of different types of landscapes.
- Stereographs, Daguerreotypes and albumen prints that are made to record social events and the countryside and woodlands.
The main subject focus of the structure of Pictorialism are:
- Landscapes
- People
- Nature
The main process of this whole outcome is made by:
- A photographer and their assistant/s that made the images.
- other people that did the work of organising and planning the process of the plates.
- handy persons that managed the prints.
- Individuals which to care of the publications of the images that were established in books or sold them separately.
References
The Creators Project, Pictorialism: The Movement that Birthed Modern Photography, Ronner. A (Aug 2015) <http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/pictorialism-the-movement-that-birthed-modern-photography>
The End of Fact? Pictorialism <http://www.radford.edu/rbarris/art451%20Hist%20of%20Photog/pictorialism.html>
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