Art movements & Isms

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PICTORIALISM

Adolph De Meyer: Glass and Shadows 1909

time period: 1880s-1920s


Key characteristics/influences/techniques: Made photography an artistic process by making photos look like paintings- by smearing Vaseline on the camera lens, altering the image in the dark room and scratching and putting chemicals onto the negative to make it look like a sketch. Heavily influenced by the allegorical paintings of the 18th century, images were dreamlike and usually staged.


Artists associated: Peter Henry Emerson, The Vienna Camera Club, Julia Margaret Cameron, Adolph De Meyer


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REALISM / STRAIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY

Paul Strand: Wall Street 1915

Time period: 1920s-1950s

Key characteristics/influences/techniques: Images were not manipulated, shapes and abstract compositions were often concentrated on- including landscape images. Used photography as a direct viewpoint of how the world was at that exact moment in time- without manipulation.


Artists associated: Paul Strand, Walker Evans, Ansel Adams


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MODERNISM

Time period: 1920s- 1950s


Key characteristics/influences/techniques: Heavily influenced by the Bauhaus art movement, photographers began to embrace social, political and aesthetic potential, experimenting with light, perspective and developing, as well as new subjects and abstraction. Coupled with movements in painting, sculpture and architecture, these works became known as ‘modernist photography’.


Artists associated: Edward Steichen, Dora Maar, Alfred Stieglitz, Group  f.64, Otto Umbehr


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POST-MODERNISM

Time period: 1950s- 1970s

Key characteristics/influences/techniques: First and foremost, postmodernism builds on the themes and conceptual ideas that began during the modernist period. This type of photography also often features surrealism, expressionism or other similar themes. Postmodern paintings were often characterized by an abstract, or non-representational, approach; works often appeared to be random colours or scribbles without an overriding design or meaning. Postmodern photography takes the same approach


Artists associated: Cindy Sherman, Robyn Stacey, Yasumasa Morimura, Tracey Moffatt, Jacky Redgate


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