PICTORIALISM

Time period: 1880s – 1920s

Key characteristics/ conventions: often uses landscapes and figures within, influenced by allegorical imagery

Artists associated: Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879)

Sally Mann

The Vienna Camera Club (Austria) – Hans Watcek, Heinrich Kuhn, Hugo Henneberg

The Brotherhood of the Linked Ring (London) –

Photo-Secession (New York) – Frank Eugene, Gertrude Kasebier, F Holland Day, Clarence H White

Methods/ techniques/ processes: vaseline on lenses to make it not sharp, manipulate images (mimic artwork)

REALISM / STRAIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY

Time period: Late 1800s and the early 1900s

Key characteristics/ conventions: Shows images of peoples lives to show poor/helpless/homeless normally

Artists associated: Walker Evans (1903-75)

Methods/ techniques/ processes: Social reform photography (imagery of poor/homeless) used to help people within the images