Photography Class #4 - 10/5/06

Photography Class #4
10/5/06

Fine Arts Photography – Art made purely for the reason of expression, not for any purpose such as commercial, decorative, or illustrative
-Art for art’s sake

Late 1800’s-1930’s: photography wasn’t accepted as an art – so the photographers tried to make their pics look like paintings, they started a movement dubbed: Pictorialism. They would put things in front of the lens to soften the photograph, or paint the pic all red/blue.

Famous Pictorialism Photographers:
1-Julia Margaret Cameron – became one of the best portrait photographers and did a lot of famous ppl. She was the first to do close cropped portraits (she began at age 48).
2-Rev. Charles Litwidge Dodgson – (pen name: Lewis Carroll, he wrote Alice in Wonderland) also a good portrait photographer
3-Alfred Stieglitz – (he studied photography in Germany) he convinced the population that photography was an art. He worked at a magazine: ‘American Amateur Photography’ but they fired him, so he went to a camera club – ‘The Camera Club of NY’ where he started a newsletter – ‘camera work’ which he took with him when he left the club, to start an invitation only group for serious photographers, called the ‘Photo Sessesion Group’ – they wanted to break away from conventional pictorialism. They continued ‘camera work’ which became famous. He started the 291 Gallery (291 5th Ave)He shoots realistic photography

HW-shoot a portrait photograph, thinking about the bakround and outfir of person OR do like Sielistz (a reality photograph)
MIN 3 photographs