Art Movements & Isms

PICTORIALISM

Time period : 1880s-1920s

Key characteristics/ conventions : Photos had to look like paintings and drawings in order to fit in as a new medium.

Artists associated: Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879), The Vienna Camera Club, The Brotherhood of the Linked Ring, Photo-Secession, Sally Mann.

Key works:

Methods/ techniques/ processes: Put Vaseline in lenses to weaken the sharpness of the image. Allegorical paintings- figurative mode of representation conveying meaning other than the literal.

REALISM / STRAIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY

Time period: 1900s

Key characteristics/ conventions : provides an accurate and descriptive records of the visual world. The term ‘realism’ can mean to depict things as they are, without idealising or making abstract

Artists associated: Walker Evans, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand.

Social Form Photography- Images of those in poor classes who live in slums taken by wealthy photographers in the hope that it brings light on the issue, start of photojournalism