PICTORIALISM
Key works:
Time period :
1880s-1920s
Key characteristics/ conventions :
Wanted to make photographs looking like Art and Paintings, the photographic manipulation often showed off the photographers personality and character.
Artists associated:
- H P ROBINSON
- CHARLES JOB
- FRANK EUGENE
- JMW TURNER
- JULIA MARGARET CAMERON
- GEORGE DAVISON
Methods/ techniques/ processes:
- Vaseline Smearing on Camera Lense
- Paint strokes
- Purposely Manipulating Image in Darkroom – “scratching and marking their prints to imitate the texture of canvas, using soft focus, blurred and fuzzy imagery”
REALISM / STRAIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY
Key works:
Time period:
1960s
Key characteristics/ conventions :
This movement ditched the “painting like” side of photography and chose to take pictures how they were with manipulation.
Artists associated:
- Alfred Stieglitz
- Paul Strand
- Jacob Riis
- Lewis W Hine
- Dorothea Lange
- Walker Evans
- Berenice Abbott
Methods/ techniques/ processes:
There was no main technique , just trying and getting the image to look as it does in real life o show of the beauty of the landscape or the harsh reality of the image. They focused on “crisp focus with a wide depth-of-field.”