February 24
Pictorialism
Extra Credit Opportunity! Attend Maria Elena Buszek's talk Earn 10 points extra credit (sign in at Wignall desk) |
 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41M6TZV04BL._SL500_.jpg |
Exam #1
Results |
||
Number of
students earning grade |
||
A |
50 - 45
points |
4 |
B |
44 - 40
points |
12 |
C |
39 - 35
points |
8 |
D |
34 - 30
points |
6 |
F |
29 - 0 points |
2 |
Highest
score - 47 |
||
Lowest score
- 29 |
||
Julia Margaret Cameron
1815 - 1879
Julia Margaret Cameron.
Two Women. Date Unknown.
Bajac,
Quentin. The Invention of Photography. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York.
2002.
Julia Margaret Cameron. Sir John Frederick William Herschel. 1867. Albumen print. |
 Photographer Unknown. Sir John Frederick William Herschel. Date Unknown. http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/3272595.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d= 2C48553CC6AAB74CC188DA85C0E13BDEA55A1E4F32AD3138 |
Julia Margaret Cameron. The Kiss of Peace- G.G. Watts and Children. c. 1867.
Newhall,
Beaumont. The History of Photography. The Museum of Modern Art, New
York. 1982.
"Theory of Sacrifices" |
Julia Margaret Cameron. Sappho. c. 1866. |
First written defense of photography as art |
|
Critic Francis Wey declared that "truth in art does not lie in a ruthless and unintelligent copy of nature, but in a spiritual interpretation." |
|
Called for photographers to interpret their subjects even if they had to sacrifice detail |
|
Julia Margaret Cameron. Ellen Terry at Age 16. 1864. |
"Hers are all taken purposely out of focus - some are very picturesque- some merely hideous- however, she talks of them as if they were triumphs of art." - Lewis Carroll |
"What is focus- and who has the right to say what is the legitimate focus? My aspirations are to enoble photography and to secure for it the character and uses of High Art by combining the real and the ideal." -Cameron |
Lewis Carroll
1832 - 1898
Oscar Gustave Rejlander. Lewis
Carroll. 1863. Albumen print.
Rosenblum,
Naomi. A World History of Photography. Abbeville Press, New York. 1989.
Lewis Carroll. Alice Liddell
and Sisters Edith and Lorina. c. 1859.
Higonnet, Anne. Pictures of Innocence: Tthe
History and Crisis of Ideal Childhood. Thames and Hudson: London. 1998.
Lewis Carroll. Alice Liddell. 1858.
Oscar Rejlander. Night in Town. c. 1860. |
Lewis Carroll. Alice Liddell as The Beggar Maid. c. 1859. |
Julia Margaret Cameron. Alice Liddell as Young Woman.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Alice_Liddell_as_a_young_woman.jpg
Lewis Carroll. Irene MacDonald. 1863.
source unknown
Lewis Carroll. Irene MacDonald. 1863.
http://www.nationalgalleries.org/media_collection/6/PGP%20189.21.jpg
Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll). Reclining Nude. 1879.
Higonnet, Anne. Pictures of Innocence: Tthe
History and Crisis of Ideal Childhood. Thames and Hudson: London. 1998.
Artist Unknown. The Kodak Girl. c. 1910.
Marien, Mary Warner. Photography: A cultural History. Second edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006.
In 1888, George Eastman introduces the "Kodak" Hand-held
Camera |
|
http://www.hfmgv.org/exhibits/pic/1999/kodakadb.jpg |
First Kodak Hand Held Camera |
1891 Kodak releases transparent film |
1900 first Brownie camera released |
Cost $1 |
150,000 cameras sold the first year |
Unknown Photographer. Untitled, Cow with collar and chain standing in front of a wooden fence. c. 1890s.
snapshot = to shoot instinctively without taking aim
Photo-Revolver de Poche c. 1882.
http://www.geh.org/fm/mees/htmlsrc/mE58300001_ful.html#topofimage
Unknown Photographer. Untitled,
Boy on dock |
Snapshot
introduced new ways of seeing: |
Informal
framing |
|
Unbalanced
compositions |
|
Skewed angles |
|
Strange
perspectives |
|
Banal subjects |
|
Out-of-focus
objects
|
At a time when people were beginning to feel the alienating effects of modern urban living, the hand-held camera gave the individual a means of expression and a voice |
Jacques-Henri Lartigue. Bois De Boulogne. c. 1890. |
Jacques-Henri Lartigue
1894 - 1988
Jacques-Henri Lartigue. My Hydro-glider with Propeller. 1904.
Jacques-Henri Lartigue. My Cousin Bichonnade. 1905.
Marien, Mary Warner. Photography: A cultural History. Second edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006.
Jacques-Henri Lartigue. Delaye
Grand Prix. 1912.
20th Century Photography Museum Ludwig Cologne.
Taschen, Koln, 2005.
E.J. Bellocq
1873 - 1949
E.J. Bellocq. Storeyville Portrait; Untitled, Plate 27 (Reclining Nude with a Mask). c. 1912.
E.J. Bellocq. Storeyville Portrait. c. 1900 - 1917.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bellocq_Storyville_undamaged.jpg
E.J. Bellocq. Storeyville Portrait. c. 1900 - 1917.
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/B/bellocq/bellocq_photo1_full.html
E.J. Bellocq. Storeyville Portrait. c. 1900 - 1917.
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/B/bellocq/bellocq_photo4_full.html
E.J. Bellocq. Storeyville Portrait. c. 1900 - 1917.
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/B/bellocq/bellocq_photo8_full.html
E.J. Bellocq. Damaged Storeyville Portrait. c. 1900 - 1917.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bellocq2_big.jpg
Naturalism |
“As an aid to science, as a recorder, as a duplicator, photography has helped advance civilization. [Yet] it has failed to occupy the place it may yet hold as a means for expressing original thought of a fine order.” – J. Wells Champney, American artist |
 |
 |
Claude
Monet. On the Seine At Bennecourt (Au Bord De L'eau. Bennecourt). 1868. Preble, Duane, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank. Artforms. Seventh ed. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002. |
P.H. Emerson. Throwing the Cast Net. c. 1886. |
P.H. Emerson. Rowing Home the Schoof-Stuff. 1886.
http://getty.edu/art/exhibitions/emerson/shoof_stuff.html
 |
 |
John
Constable. The White Horse. 1819. Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. Revised Second ed. Vol. 2. New York: Prentice Hall Inc., and Harry N. Abrams Inc., 2005. |
George Davison. The Onion Field.
1889. |
Heinrich Kuhn. Mary Warner and Hans Kuhn. 1865.
http://www.laurencemillergallery.com/images/kuhn_marshall.jpg
Alfred Stieglitz
1864 - 1946
Alfred Stieglitz. Winter on
Fifth Avenue. 1892.
http://www.avenuedstereo.com/modern/stieg_fifth.jpg
 |
 |
Alfred Stieglitz. Winter on Fifth Avenue. 1892. (uncropped) |
Alfred Stieglitz. Winter on Fifth Avenue. 1892. (cropped) |
Alfred Stieglitz. The Terminal. 1892. Photogravure.
http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=69300&handle=li
Alfred Stieglitz. Hand of Man. 1902. Photogravure.
http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=69299&handle=li
Camera Notes featured: |
Quality
reproductions |
Critical
reviews |
How to articles |
 |
Characteristics
of Pictorialist style: |
Valued final
image over subject matter |
|
Soft focus |
|
Simple compositions |
|
Cropping
of negative |
|
Elaborate
printing processes |
|
photogravure = The process of printing from an intaglio plate, etched according to a photographic image. |
|
William Fraser. A Wet Night,
Columbus Circle, NY. c. 1897-98. |
Pictorialsim |
1889 - 1910 |
Pictorialism
= early 20th century photographic movement which promoted the idea that
art photography should emulate painting and encouraged the use of soft
focus, special filters and lens coatings, heavy manipulation in the
darkroom and complex printing processes |
Fred
Holland Day
1864 - 1933
Fred Holland Day. Ethiopian Chief. 1897. Gum bichromate print.
http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=42630&handle=li
Fred Holland Day. Ebony and Ivory. 1897.
http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/04/08/fred-holland-day/
1900 "The New School of American Photography" exhibition held in London and Paris
Fred Holland Day. Nude Youth with Laurel Leaf Standing Against Rocks. c. 1907.
Marien, Mary Warner. Photography: A cultural History. Second edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006.
Fred Holland Day. Youth Sitting on a Stone. 1907.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Day%2C_Fred_Holland_%281864-1933%29_-_Youth_sitting_on_a_stone_%28Nicola_Giancola%29%2C_1907.jpg
"We have here merely the excrescences of a diseased imagination, which has been fostered by the ravings of a few luncatics." - The Photographic News |
Critics disliked Pictorialism because: |
Lack of definition - often called the "fuzzy wuzzy school" |
Asymmetrical compositions |
Extreme contrasts |
