On 7/12/2014 6:49 PM, Chris Trask wrote:
Today was half-off day at the local Goodwill thrift stores, so I made my usual
biweekly pilgrimage. I came away from one store with a slightly damaged copy of
"The American Annual of Photography 1935" for just $0.99. Quite a lot of
interesting articles about photography during the Great Depression and lots of photos to
glean over. Also lots of ads. One very interesting article about microphotography
showed a photo of a bellows almost two feet long.
Seems there was a great deal of popularity in using a fog type filter for
landscapes, cityscapes, portraits, and nudes during that time. Renders an
interesting effect in B&W that looks much like the impressionistic art of
Renoir and Monet.
Any book on the history of photography (and various web sites) will tell you of the vogue of Pictorialism in photography
from the late 19th. Century to the early 20th. It was at least in part an effort to get photography accepted as an Art,
like painting, and attempted, more or less, to mimic the qualities of painting. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictorialism>
A new photographic esthetic emerged in the early '30s, and was boldly announced by "Group f64" in late 1932.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Group_f/64>Obviously, it had not yet reached acceptance with the editors of this
publication by 1935.
Several still famous photographers bridged the change, Edward Weston, for example. In one exhibit I viewed, he had a
famous early work in the Pictorialist section and others in the Group f64 section. Ansel Adams was a very important part
of Group f/64, but it was more a matter of putting a name to what he was already doing than a great change for him.
My most recent posted image, Light Shadows, could easily be Pictorialist, while most images I post are in the tradition
started by Group f64.
Didact Moose
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