Monday, October 8, 2007

The Amateur and Modernism


I was very pleased to see so many of you this morning. Thanks. I hope you find the Monday morning sessions useful.

Here are a few links to some of the areas we touched on.

Pictorialism is the peculiar form that photographers with artistic aspirations felt their work needed to take for Photography to be regarded as 'Art'. The leading group called themselves The Photo-secession

A collection of links about Alfred Stieglitz:
Wikipedia on Stieglitz
The Steerage
Gallery 291

We'll return to Edward Steichen in the next lecture. He had some interesting ideas: Steichen quotations

Modernism is when a medium stops pretending to be something it isn't, and celebrates its own strengths. The Museum of New Mexico have a Modernism microsite - which you can explore

Disruptive Technology is an interesting idea about landmark inventions that cause a seismic change

Paul Strand's white fence


EdwardWeston.com

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