PICTORIALISM

time period : 1880’s – 1920’s

Key characteristics/ conventions : Making photographs look like a painting.

Artists associated: Julia Margaret Cameron, Peter Henry Emerson, Vienna camera club, linked ring brotherhood, photo-secession, Sally Mann.

Some Works:

Methods/ techniques/ processes: Using petroleum jelly/ Vaseline type gel to rub on the lens of a camera to make it blurry, and make spaces in the images look like smudged charcoal. Scratching images.

REALISM / STRAIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY

Time period: 1920’s – 1930’s

Key characteristics/ conventions : Reacting against pictorialism, recording things as they are; without any alterations.

Artists associated: Walker Evans, Willy Ronis, Édouard Boubat,

Some Works:

Methods/ techniques/ processes: Social Reform Photography; origins of photojournalism.