From: shannon stoney (sstoney@pdq.net)
Date: 02/11/01-12:30:15 PM Z
In regard to sneering dismissals of Pictorialism: I think this is still
taught in colleges and universities, in my experience. I am a photo major
, and the mainstream view at my university seems to be that Pictorialism
is silly and Modernism rules. This is more the case with teachers in the
photo dept than with the art history people, though, I think. It may take
a while before people stop making fun of Pictorialism. It's weird that
even some people who consider themselves thoroughly post-modern in their
sensibility still sort of act as mouthpieces for Modernism in their
complete contempt for Pictorialism. But Steiglitz was a very powerful
personality, and a rather arrogant one for all his greatness, and his
eventual conclusion that the perfectly focussed, perfectly sharp gelatin
silver print was the apotheosis of photography may take a long time to go
away. (let's just be glad we weren't married to him, like O'Keefe!)
--shannon
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