Fine art photography and documentary
photography became
accepted by the
English-speaking art world and the gallery system during the twentieth
century. In the United States, a handful of photographers, including
Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, John Szarkowski, and Edward Weston,
spent their lives advocating for photography as a fine art.
Phony meteors strike the sky around Milky WayAt first, fine art
photographers tried to imitate painting styles. This movement is called
Pictorialism, often using soft focus for a dreamy, 'romantic' look. In
reaction to that, Weston, Ansel Adams, and others formed the f/64 Group to
advocate 'straight photography', the photograph as a (sharply focused)
thing in itself and not an imitation of something else.
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110 Montura Way, Novato, CA 415 884-9333
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1 Nogales Ct, Novato, CA 415 999-5137
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11 Thornton Ct, Novato, CA 415 897-4567
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1205 Grant Ave, Novato, CA 415 892-6141
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The aesthetics of photography is a matter that continues to be discussed
regularly, especially in artistic circles. Many artists argued that
photography was the mechanical reproduction of an image. If photography is
authentically art, then photography in the context of art would need
redefinition, such as determining what component of a photograph makes it
beautiful to the viewer. The controversy began with the earliest images
"written with light"; Nicéphore Niépce, Louis Daguerre, and others among
the very earliest photographers were met with acclaim, but some questioned
if their work met the definitions and purposes of art.
Clive Bell in his classic essay Art states that only "significant
form" can distinguish art from what is not art.
“ There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot
exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether
worthless. What is this quality? What quality is shared by all objects
that provoke our aesthetic emotions? What quality is common to Sta.
Sophia and the windows at Chartres, Mexican sculpture, a Persian bowl,
Chinese carpets, Giotto's frescoes at Padua, and the masterpieces of
Poussin, Piero della Francesca, and Cezanne? Only one answer seems
possible - significant form. In each, lines and colors combined in a
particular way, certain forms and relations of forms, stir our
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