PICTORIALISM

time period :

1880s – 1920s

Key characteristics/ conventions :

Looks like a painting

Considered to be art

Artists associated:

Clarence H. White

John Everett Millais

JMW Turner

Paolo Veronese

Julia Margaret Cameron
Key works:

Clarence H. White – Morning (1908)

In 1889 Peter Henry Emerson (1856-1936) expounded his theory of Naturalistic Photography which the Pictorialist used to promote photography as an art rather than science. Their handcrafted prints were in visual opposition to the sharp b/w contrast of the commercial print

Methods/ techniques/ processes:

scratching

REALISM / STRAIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY

Time period:

1920s

Key characteristics/ conventions :

abstract

landscape
Artists associated:

paul strand

Dorothea Large
Key works:

Ladder of ladders 1931
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MODERNISM

Time period:

1830
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POST-MODERNISM

Time period:

second half of 20th century

Key characteristics/ conventions :

celebrating difference rather than unity,

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