Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/29

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Subject: Re: [Leica] OT:Photography and Art Photography
From: S Dimitrov <sld@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:16:54 -0800
References: <7f.1e08dff1.2937fcba@aol.com>

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.
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