Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Don't forget the LA bucolics, who are now in their early infancy. Slobodan Dimitrov ARTHURWG@aol.com wrote: > > By most accounts, "art photography" as a specialized activity developed > after 1851 as a reaction to all the professional "hack" photography that was > flooding the market. It began in England with the pre-Raphaelite > photographers, many of whom hung out with the pre-Raphaelite painters of the > period, like Rossetti, Millais and Hunt. In photography, it ment allegorical > subjects and "pictorial effect," which was not the same as "pictorialism", > which came later. > The most famoust early art photograpers were Rejlander, Robinson, Cameron > and Carrol, the latter of "Alice in Wonderland" fame. They were followed by > the "naturalism" movement, which was not "natural" at all. Although they > rejected symbolism, allegory and pictorial effect, so-called "naturalism" > was really closest to the Barbazon School and Whistler, the English Art > Club, and the Rustic School. It's best-known photograper was Peter Emerson, > who took up photography in 1881 and photographed in Cuba, East Anglia and the > Norfolk Broads. In 1890 he published his last book, "The Death of > Naturalism;" he then gave up photography. > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html