AestheticsOfPhotography
Pictorialism
Pictorialism is an international aesthetic movement that characterized photography between about 1890 and 1914. It followed the diffusion of a new photographic process called "dry plate" or "gelatino-silver bromide" invented by Richard Leach Maddox in 1871, the recording being obtained from a suspension of silver bromide in gelatin. It reached its peak at the beginning of the 20th century before gradually fading away after the First World War.This aesthetic has experienced a resurgence in the field of fine art photography. Photography, popularized from 1839 onwards, was first defined as a mechanical and scientific process for capturing visible reality. In England, in 1886, a manifesto article written by Peter Henry Emerson, Photography: a pictorial art, defended the artistic legitimacy of photography as a technique unworthy of inclusion in the Fine Arts. The expression "a pictorial art", literally, was retained by the French, who called this new movement "pictorialism". Pictorialism is the very first school of artistic photography. It is also the first international movement for the medium. It is considered that the period of expansion covers approximately the years 1889-1914, sometimes longer, as in Belgium where it lasts until 1940. The so-called "Victorian" photography (1840-1880, notably represented by Julia Margaret Cameron) laid the foundations of artistic photography.
Pictorialism
Pictorialism is an international aesthetic movement that characterized photography between about 1890 and 1914. It followed the diffusion of a new photographic process called "dry plate" or "gelatino-silver bromide" invented by Richard Leach Maddox in 1871, the recording being obtained from a suspension of silver bromide in gelatin. It reached its peak at the beginning of the 20th century before gradually fading away after the First World War.This aesthetic has experienced a resurgence in the field of fine art photography. Photography, popularized from 1839 onwards, was first defined as a mechanical and scientific process for capturing visible reality. In England, in 1886, a manifesto article written by Peter Henry Emerson, Photography: a pictorial art, defended the artistic legitimacy of photography as a technique unworthy of inclusion in the Fine Arts. The expression "a pictorial art", literally, was retained by the French, who called this new movement "pictorialism". Pictorialism is the very first school of artistic photography. It is also the first international movement for the medium. It is considered that the period of expansion covers approximately the years 1889-1914, sometimes longer, as in Belgium where it lasts until 1940. The so-called "Victorian" photography (1840-1880, notably represented by Julia Margaret Cameron) laid the foundations of artistic photography.