Ch #9 Flashcards
Symbolism
A revolt against realism and its minute descriptions of an objective, eternal reality
Henry Peach Robinson, Fading Away, 1858
Combasit of 5 different images, staged this to tell their own story
Peter Henry Emerson
His goal was to elevate the status of photographic art; Using the sun and chemicals to create these images
Photogravures
Invented by William Henry Fox Talbot in the 1880s
Original negative is etched into a metal plate, inked, and printed in an etching process
Platinum Prints
Contact printing process, ultraviolet radiation, chemically developed as the final step
The Photo-Secession and Alfred Stieglitz
Club for serious photographers and a collection of prints from a close circle of his friends
The Development of the Pictorial Movement
Beauty over fact, and not most concerned with the sharpness of the image, dreamlike
The Decadent Movement & Tonalism
Took photos of female nudity, weird mannerisms, male nudity that was not really excepted
Anne Brigman
Female nude, natural landscapes or trees; Famous images during 1900-20’s and worked with the photo-secession
Gertrude Käsebier, Blessed Art Thou among Women, 1899, Platinum Print
one of the founders of the influential Photo- Secession group and who is best known for her evocative images of women and domestic scenes; Took photos in the home
Alice Boughton
known for her photographs of many literary and theatrical figures of her time. She was a Fellow of Alfred Stieglitz’s Photo-Secession, a circle of photographers whose artistic efforts succeeded in raising photography to a fine art form
