Inferences
- 17th-18th Century “Enlightenment”
PICTORIALISM
Time period :1880s – 1920s
Key characteristics/ conventions : attempting to make images which resemble paintings
Artists associated: Clarence H. White, John Everett Millais, Paolo Veronese, JMW Turner, Peter Harvey Emerson
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Methods/ techniques/ processes: painting over photos, smearing Vaseline on lenses, scratch the negative out on prints,
REALISM / STRAIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY
Time period: 1880-1920s
Key characteristics/ conventions : Picture meant to look the way it looked through viewfinder, no image manipulation, framing more specific,
Artists associated: Walker Evans, Paul Strand, Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams
Key works:
Methods/ techniques/ processes: Framing, collections,
MODERNISM
Time period: 1830
Key characteristics/ conventions: celebrates unity,
Artists associated: Olive Cotton, Alfred Stieglitz
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POST-MODERNISM
Nialistic reaction to modernism, result of ww2, Postmodern photography is characterized by atypical compositions of subjects that are unconventional or sometimes completely absent, making sympathy with the subject difficult or impossible
Time period: “arose in the second half of the 20th century”
Key characteristics/ conventions : celebrating difference rather than unity,
Artists associated:
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Methods/ techniques/ processes: Abstract,