Pictorialist

Pictorialist - photographs which are a picturesque, decorative art in their own right and appeal to the viewers sense of beauty.

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Pictorialism was a photographic movement in vogue from around 1885 following the widespread introduction of the dry-plate process.

The "old school" believed in sharp focus and good lenses; the "new school", the "pictorialists", tried to achieve the atmospheric qualities of paintings. Some of the pictorialists experimented with pinhole photography.

Is it in a round of dismissal by the purists similar to the pictorialists being rubbed out by Newhall and Adams? The Camera can be a tool to become an instant pictorialist.

Linked Ring Brotherhood
A group of pictorialist photographers who broke away from the Photographic Society of Great Britain. Existed between 1892 1910
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The pictorialists of today are those who use Photoshop to heavily manipulate their images so they fall out of the field of photography and into the realm of the graphic arts.

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