The early years of photography
"The photograph was the ultimate response to a social and cultural appetite for a more accurate and real looking representation of reality, a need that had is origins in the Renaissance"
The camera Obscura
Lecture notes: pictorialism, Successionism, Straight photography
Pictorialism started in ? as a way to express and engage feelings and senses as he felt images should be connected with beauty rather than facts. It is a mechanical means to replicate reality. Alfred Steiegitz started the movement and Paul Strand was the person who came up with straight photography. Straight photography was used to move away from the soft artistic ways. Strand photographed everything that was in front of him, he used different view points to show the surrounding area in full light.
F64 empathises on "pure" photography, the images were sharp and maximised depth of field. by doing this it put empathis on quality and capturing reality. Some of the photographers in the F64 group were Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham and Ansel Adams.
Pictorialism started in ? as a way to express and engage feelings and senses as he felt images should be connected with beauty rather than facts. It is a mechanical means to replicate reality. Alfred Steiegitz started the movement and Paul Strand was the person who came up with straight photography. Straight photography was used to move away from the soft artistic ways. Strand photographed everything that was in front of him, he used different view points to show the surrounding area in full light.
F64 empathises on "pure" photography, the images were sharp and maximised depth of field. by doing this it put empathis on quality and capturing reality. Some of the photographers in the F64 group were Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham and Ansel Adams.