Re: Pictorialism, Steiglitz, NY times review

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From: shannon stoney (sstoney@pdq.net)
Date: 02/11/01-03:55:51 PM Z


Pam wrote:

>It's been a long while since I've studied who did what vis a vis the
>movement away from pictorialism; but I recall that it was the west
>coast f64 group who were instrumental in that move, that Stieglitz
>wasn't all that involved or important in the move. I thought
>Stieglitz's primary contribution was the ennobling of photography as
>an art.
>

I looked at my World History of Photography book again, and I think you're
right: it was the west coast f-64 group that popularized "the New
Objectivity" as the text calls it; but Paul Strand was one of the first
practitioners and promoters of it, and he was part of Stieglitz's New York
circle. Stieglitz devoted the last issue of Camera Work to Strand's
modernist work. It also says, "Of the older generation, neither Stieglitz
nor Steichen, with their roots in Pictorialism, adhered strictly to the
vocabulary of the New Objectivity, though both incorporated elements of the
style with brilliant results."

--shannon


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