Pictorialism

Alfred Stieglitz. Winter on Fifth Avenue. 1892.
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/iVgn5E83znC6Ug9hSvlSPQ

Book Pages 11 - 15 Due

Reminder Learning Community #3 on Thursday
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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. Water Lilies (The Clouds). 1906.
Preble, Duane, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank. Artforms. Seventh ed. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002.

P.H. Emerson. Gathering Water Lilies. c. 1880s.
http://photo.net/photography-news-forum/00KnVN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.
http://www.geh.org/taschen/htmlsrc15/m196700800006_ful.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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. (uncropped)
Alfred Stieglitz. Winter on Fifth Avenue. 1892. (cropped)
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/iVgn5E83znC6Ug9hSvlSPQ

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Camera Notes featured:

Alfred Stieglitz.  Hand of Man.  1902.  Photogravure.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mBLVB8K_Pis/TIKXwkqkiEI/AAAAAAAABJ8/bCFJbPeQk4E/s1600/800px-Stieglitz-Hand.jpg
Quality reproductions
Critical reviews
How to articles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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
 
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. c. 1897 - 98.
http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Wet-Night-Columbus-Circle-New-York-1897-98-Posters_i4255771_.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1900 "The New School of American Photography" exhibition held in London and Paris

 

Ebony and Ivory

Fred Holland Day.  Ebony and Ivory.  1897.
http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/04/08/fred-holland-day/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"We have here merely the excrescences of a diseased imagination, which has been fostered by the ravings of a few luncatics." - The Photographic News

Nude Youth

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.

 
 
Critics disliked Pictorialism because:
Lack of definition - often called the "fuzzy wuzzy school"
Asymmetrical compositions
Extreme contrasts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fred Holland Day.Youth Sitting on a Stone.1907.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Day,_Fred_Holland_(1864-1933)_-_Youth_sitting_on_a_stone_(Nicola_Giancola),_1907.jpg

Fred Holland Day. Crucifixion. 1898.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Day,_Fred_Holland_(1864-1933)_-_The_crucifixion_-1898.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.nhpr.org/files/teticollection01.jpg
1901 Stieglitz left Camera Notes
 
1902 founded the Photo Secession
Invitation only group that included Alfred Stieglitz, Eduard Steichen, Frank Eugene, Gertrude Kaesebier, Joseph Keiley, John Bullcok, Eva Watson-Schutze
Consciously exculded themselves from traditional photographic practices that Stieglitz felt were inferior and old-fashioned
Wanted to force the art world to recognize photography
"as a distinctive medium of individual expression"
 
1903 established Camera Work as the Photo Secession's Journal
"As far as I'm concerned he took about five good pictures in his whole life, and that was only when he ventured out of himself. He had nothing to do with me or my pictures. Everything had to revolve around him. It was one of the silliest and most outrageous cults I've ever seen. I've never liked any persons or schools that closed other people out." - Berenice Abbott in Art News, January 1981

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Frank Eugene. Ms. Ide. c. 1890 - 1903.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_l85s9gPgKT1qbslwlo1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=
0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2&Expires=1299834502&Signature=yEIKA9OMvV22k20zozlUE8qyfXU%3D

Frank Eugene. Miss Gene W. c. 1900s.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7a6u6m4XY1qzdzano1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5
Q3HQMG2&Expires=1299834697&Signature=8sV5Hg1uvYnvlUKQJ0pyWiOsvlk%3D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Heinrich Kuhn.  On the Hillside.  1910.
http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/photographs/on_the_hillside_a_study_in_values_heinrich_kuhn/objectview_
enlarge.aspx?page=1262&sort=0&sortdir=asc&keyword=&fp=1&dd1=19&dd2=0&vw=1&collID=19&OID=190036433&vT=1&hi=0&ov=0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Clarence White.  Morning Dew.  1908.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5dimmpiF77Y/TKATkBnP62I/AAAAAAAAAco/R4KodWZ-WSQ/s1600/Morning+by+Clarence+White-784084.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edward Steichen
1879 - 1973

 

Edward Steichen.  Self-Portrait.  1902.
http://cameraobscura.busdraghi.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/steichen_self_portrait.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Brass Bowl

Edward Steichen. The Brass Bowl. 1906.
20th Century Photography Museum Ludwig Cologne. Taschen, Koln, 2005.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edward Steichen. Brooklyn Bridge. 1903.
http://cameraobscura.busdraghi.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/steichen_brooklin_bridge.jpg

 
Characteristics of Steichen's work:
Subjective response to visual world
Photograph used as means of expression
Moody overtones
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edward Steichen. Moonlight: The Pond. 1906.  16" X 19".
http://emilianohorcada.com.ar/blog/2009/12/29/the-pond-moonlight/