From: Pam Niedermayer (pam_pine@cape.com)
Date: 02/11/01-04:11:02 PM Z
Thanks, Shannon, at least long term memory hasn't been blown away yet. :)
Pam
shannon stoney wrote:
>
> 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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