PICTORIALISM

time period: 1880s – 1920s

Key characteristics/ conventions: attempting to make images which resemble paintings

Influences:

Artists associated: Henry Peach Robinson, Peter Henry Emerson, Alfred Stieglitz

Key works:

Methods/ techniques/ processes: painting over photos, smearing Vaseline on lenses, scratch the negative out on prints,

REALISM / STRAIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY

Time period: 1880s – 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: 1900s – 1940s

Key characteristics/ conventions: Straight photography, Expressionism, Futurism, Formalism, Dadaism

Artists associated: Ansel Adams, Eadweard J. Muybridge, Margareth Bourke-White, Paul Strand, Alfred Stieglitz

Key works:

Methods/ techniques/ processes: blended imagery and themes, absurdism, nonlinear narratives, stream of consciousness

POST-MODERNISM

Time period: 1950

Key characteristics/ conventions : celebrating difference rather than unity,

Artists associated:

Key works:

Methods/ techniques/ processes: abstract