Maya Alexandra Robinson
Mrs. Ditanna
AP Language and Composition
15 December 2017
The Influence of the Pictorialist Movement on Modern Photography
The release of the “snapshot” by Kodak in America lead photography to be more about the documentation of events and reality of the world. Many photographers began to realize that the photos they produced were very comparable to the beauty of painting or sculpting because they manipulated their negatives and prints in order for the photo to have the same effect. The Pictorialist Movement was a way to push the art community into accepting photography as a medium in fine art. The photographers that lead groups in this movement argued that photography should be considered a medium of fine art because …show more content…
The main goal of forming this group was to combat the criticisms of the Photographic Society and make an “advancement of the art of photography”(Hostetler). It ran almost as comparable to the Illuminati in a way that is was a secret society. As in the name, each member of the society was thought be a direct link into each other and their meetings usually resembled special celebrations. In order to become a member in this group, you had to be cordially invited by one of the leaders in the group. If you were chosen to join, the members of the society believed that the invitees had “a deep understanding of every aspect of the art form, from the chemical development processes, to optical and mechanical skills”(Dupuis). This meant that people that were invited had to be very talented and already have some of their own works published into the local media at that time. The Linked Ring opened up their invitation to the group all around Britain and even made it to America. This is what made the pictorialist movement spread into America and made it more into a global
Mrs. Ditanna
AP Language and Composition
15 December 2017
The Influence of the Pictorialist Movement on Modern Photography
The release of the “snapshot” by Kodak in America lead photography to be more about the documentation of events and reality of the world. Many photographers began to realize that the photos they produced were very comparable to the beauty of painting or sculpting because they manipulated their negatives and prints in order for the photo to have the same effect. The Pictorialist Movement was a way to push the art community into accepting photography as a medium in fine art. The photographers that lead groups in this movement argued that photography should be considered a medium of fine art because …show more content…
The main goal of forming this group was to combat the criticisms of the Photographic Society and make an “advancement of the art of photography”(Hostetler). It ran almost as comparable to the Illuminati in a way that is was a secret society. As in the name, each member of the society was thought be a direct link into each other and their meetings usually resembled special celebrations. In order to become a member in this group, you had to be cordially invited by one of the leaders in the group. If you were chosen to join, the members of the society believed that the invitees had “a deep understanding of every aspect of the art form, from the chemical development processes, to optical and mechanical skills”(Dupuis). This meant that people that were invited had to be very talented and already have some of their own works published into the local media at that time. The Linked Ring opened up their invitation to the group all around Britain and even made it to America. This is what made the pictorialist movement spread into America and made it more into a global