PICTORIALISM

Time period : 1880s-1920s

Key characteristics/ conventions : make them look like artworks

Artists associated: Julia Margaret Cameron The Vienna Camera Club (Austria)

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Methods/ techniques/ processes: scratching etching to look like canvas, vaseline over lenses=unsharp lenses, adjustsments in lab with chemicals.

REALISM / STRAIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY

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Key characteristics/ conventions : wanted to make realism – straight photographs

Artists associated:Walker Evans (1903-75) Paul Strand

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