Pictorialism And Snapshot Photography

Photographical equipment at this pictorial was still primitive and many photographers felt that their lens’ recorded too much detail. Photographers started to employ different techniques to soften their images, their main goal was to create images that looked more abstract and with similar characteristics to paintings. This movement then transformed into naturalism where it was encouraged to treat photography as an independent art form. There was a belief that photography should be used to communicate something personal, and that the environment would be used as an inspiration.

During the 1870s a new category of art formed known as the Aesthetic Movement, which was based upon not what world was around the art, but the art itself (Pohl 284). This movement originated in England and spread throughout the Americas opposing the current views about art during the time the it arose, which was the ideology that art must always serve some sort of clandestine purpose. Artists who supported the Aesthetic Movement also denied any moral values that people gave to art. The painting that I chose that best fits the ideals of aestheticism is In the Studio, 1880 by William Merritt Chase. During the 19th century industrialization rapidly began to change American culture bringing on consumerism and capitalism, which focused on the

Photojournalism begun with drawings, cartoons and carvings that appeared occasionally in the 18th Century press. When Benjamin Franklin was publishing the Pennsylvania Gazette in the 1750s, he printed a carving of a snake chopped into little pieces and added the caption “Join, or die”. That was barely spot news, but at least it touched one of the main concerns of the time: the importance of unity in the American colonies.

Impressionism can be considered the first distinctly modern movement in painting. Developing in Paris in the 1860s, its influence spread throughout Europe and eventually the United States. Impressionism was a style of representational art that did not necessarily rely on realistic depictions. The Impressionists loosened their brushwork and lightened their palettes to include pure, intense colors.

Some people refer to Alfred as the father of photojournalism because his photos were good. One could observe classical balances, sharp inequalities of light and shadow, and dominant vectors of confining and expansion, as in the active movement up the street into the space and light of Times Square. Those are the artistic illusions that the photojournalists emulate up to date and will continue into the future (Clpgh.org, 2015).

Alfred Stieglitz was an American Photographer who was the pioneer of the Modern Art movement in photography. Stieglitz career began with his work of cityscapes and more than 20 years later evolved into a specific style of portraiture. He worked mostly in New York City between the years of 1905 and 1946. Stieglitz founded the Photo-Secession which was a progressive movement towards advancing the creative and unique possibilities of the fine art of photography. This movement spearheaded what is now known as Pictorial photography. Without Stieglitz’s determination and drive this type of unconventional work may have never been introduced into the Modern Art world of photography.

Expressionism, is an artistic style that originated in Germany at the end of the 19th century in

Our constant need to impress others and mindless acts of dissapearing pictures will result in a complete flip on what pictures should be. Art. Our ancestors have improved our technology on photography to create a story with our pictures, but it has become the norm to completely disregard that and do what we feel needs to be told in our picture

Like many movements in Art, the ever changing present challenged tradition. In this case, Photographers challenged the rigid rules imposed on them by the f/64 group, and straight photography. For example, Jerry Uelsman layered negatives and used combination printing. However, he was not always so liberal with his work. In fact, he started off studying portraiture and stuck to the strict rules of Photography because he was raised in purist tradition. Later, he found that he could make work for personal reasons. He believes that photographers are not confined to pre-visualization to make a work in which everything is planned out before the picture is taken. For example, during the Pictorialist movement, Henry Peach Robinson’s illustration, “The

In today's world, we rely on imagery to provide us with important information pertaining to the things surrounding us and have additionally developed the ability to read these images and understand their meanings in order to make sense of the world. Images have come to dominate our lives, not only in terms of providing us with essential information, but by allowing us to engage in creative expression to convey emotions and generate renditions of everyday life and its components. Without images and the ability to understand them, our world would become unrecognizable and nearly impossible to live in. Yet, at one point in our archaic past, our world was void of pictorial images, up until approximately 35,000 years ago during a period that archeologists

Photorealism was a primarily American art movement that emerged in the late 1960’s and flourished in the 1970’s. Photo-realism grew out of the Pop and Minimalism movements that preceded it.Photo-realists typically projected a photographed image onto a canvas and then used an airbrush to reproduce the effect of a photo printed on glossy paper.Photorealistic artists use photographs to creating paintings that look extremely realistic. Pop Art and Photorealism were reactions to the abundant use of photography in the media which, they felt, was diminishing the importance of imagery in art.

The name "Photography" comes from the Greek words for light and writing. Sir John Herschel, was the first to use the term photography in 1839, when he managed to fix images using hyposulphite of soda. He described photography as "The application of the chemical rays to the purpose of pictorial representation". Herschel also coined the terms "negative", "positive" and "snapshot".

Chaos, a state of utter confusion or disorder. Chaos, a word often used to describe the scene of a tragic event such as a natural disaster or an act of terrorism. Whether in movies or in real life we have all seen chaos at work. Smoke and screams fill the air. Law enforcement franticly runs about trying to help in any way possible. Reporters and photographers arrive in swarms to get the inside scoop on the next ground breaking tragedy. When the Boston bombing happened on April 15, 2013 there was no exception to this pattern of events. Many photographs were taken of the aftermath, but one photo in particular seems to have captured the frantic atmosphere of the moment. It depicts an older man who, mid run, had been knocked

In the early 1960s, most photographs were taken for a purpose, and that purpose was for news articles, magazines, or advertisement. There was very little consideration of photography as art. This change in the way photography was approached was in large part to photographers such as Garry Winogrand, who turned photography into an art.

Conventions in images are able to explore and can constructs a representation of a particular group, value or idea. With this image it portrays numerous visual conventions in the photo, such as camera angle, shot size, composition of the model, and the focus. These techniques help portray the intended message, ideas, values or groups from the photograph on how we are still unable to help out enough with poverty while we are spending hundreds of dollars daily on unnecessary things, while we have starving children in third world countries who are working as slaves to help support themselves.