Art history is divided into periods and movements. The difference between the two is time and intent. While art periods are usually based on historical eras, art movements are decided by artists as a collective.
These are some of them that we will look into a little deeper for our written task.
- Pictorialism Photography
- Naturalistic Photography
- Surrealism Photography
- Modernism Photography
- Postmodernism Photography
- Straight Photography
- f.64 Photography
- Conceptual Art Photography
- Experimental Photography
Below I have include a brief overview and attached video on the movement which should give you some background this should help you choose which one resonates with you the most to use for your written task.
For your visual diary, write down each period/movement, include a couple of key words to describe the movement and 1-2 photograph examples of each.
This site https://www.theartstory.org/movements/photography-focused/ will go into further depth on each of these.
The next step is for you to find two photographers to begin your assignment!
PICTORIALISM IN PHOTOGRAPHY
Pictorialism is an international style and aesthetic movement that dominated photography during the later 19th and early 20th centuries. … For the pictorialist, a photograph, like a painting, drawing or engraving, was a way of projecting an emotional intent into the viewer’s realm of imagination.
NATURALISTIC PHOTOGRAPHY
In Peter Henry Emerson’s handbook Naturalistic Photography (1889), he outlined a system of aesthetics. He decreed that a photograph should be direct and simple and show real people in their own environment, not costumed models posed before fake backdrops or other such predetermined formulas.
SURREALISM IN PHOTOGRAPHY
Photography’s connection with surrealism lies in its ability to represent the material world in strange and abstract ways.
MODERNISM IN PHOTOGRAPHY
Photographers began to embrace its social, political and aesthetic potential, experimenting with light, perspective and developing, as well as new subjects and abstraction.
POSTMODERNIST PHOTOGRAPHY
Postmodern photography is characterized by atypical compositions of subjects that are unconventional or sometimes completely absent, making sympathy with the subject difficult or impossible.
STRAIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY
Pure photography or straight photography refers to photography that attempts to depict a scene as realistically and objectively as permitted by the medium, renouncing the use of manipulation.
F.64 PHOTOGRAPHY
Group f.64, loose association of California photographers who promoted a style of sharply detailed, purist photography.
CONCEPTUAL ART PHOTOGRAPHY
Conceptual photography is a type of photography that illustrates an idea.
EXPERIMENTAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Experimental photography is using your camera or post-processing in a non-traditional way. It’s about taking your photographs beyond the norm to create unique pieces of art.
Photography with Tiffany 