Romantics, Pictoralists and the Photo secession

Romantics, Pictoralists and the Photo Secession.

 The 18^th century saw the emerging feelings of people wanting to go back to a pre-industrial era. This photograph of Alice Liddell, the girl which inspired the creation of the classic novel Alice’s adventures in wonderland starts to define the feelings of wanting to go back to older times. The pre-Raphaelite movement also shared this notion influencing the writing and painting of the era.  It saw a gothic revival where architecture was influenced such as the houses of parliament and Westminster. 

Julia Margaret Camerons “The mountain nymph sweet liberty” shows the innocence of the person and gives the picture a mythical and natural concept.

Alfred horsley Hinton was a landscape photographer whos work was part of the pictoralist movement. it refers to a style in which the photographer has somehow manipulated what would otherwise be a straightforward photograph as a means of "creating" an image rather than simply recording it. Thus making photography an art process itself. 

Dr Peter Emerson 1896. His photographs are early examples of promoting photography as an art form. The photograph shows how romance was associated with work.  

Secession refers to a number of modernist artist groups that separated from the support of official academic art and its administrations in the late 19th and early 20th century. Art nouveau challenged the nature of the art movement . It was inspired by natural forms and structures, not only in flowers and plants but also in curved lines. Architecture such as the Casa Mila in Barcelona designed by Gaudi reflected the art nouveau movement. 

The Steerage is a photograph taken by Alfred Stieglitz in 1907. The scene depicts a variety of men and women travelling in the lower-class section of a steamer going from New York to Bremen. The photograph shows the division of the poverty where the poorer class is at the bottom and the rich are at the top looking down on the poor. 

George Eastman created Kodak  in 1900.

The Kodak brownie was the first mass produced and affordable camera invented in 1900. The brownie could be used by a family and be returned when it needed developing. This made photography even more widely available and affordable.

Edward Steichen’s “Flat iron” of the flat iron building in New York shows the emergences of artificial light within photography. It shows the invention of the light bulb and the invention of night time photography.