Pictorialist photography

Alfred Stieglitz, one of the greatest pillars of American art photography, photographed Lake Como at the end of the nineteenth century

Houston is the only U.S. venue for the first major retrospective devoted to Austrian photographer and scientist Heinrich Kühn. An important figure in the international Pictorialist movement of the early 1900s, Kühn (1866–1944) is closely linked to Americans Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen. The Pictorialists elevated photography from a strictly commercial venture to an accepted artistic medium, and in his early photographs Kühn created the atmospheric effects of Impressionist paintings…

Edward Steichen. Heavy Roses, Voulangis, France. June 1914. Palladium print. 7 5/8 × 9 9/16" (19.4 × 24.3 cm). Bequest of Grace M. Mayer. 417.1997. © 2025 The Estate of Edward Steichen / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photography

Tintype photography is back so we talked to some of the new masters.

Clarence Hudson White - Girl with Rose 1903

Alternative Photography - Printing Photos on Objects: Liquid Light is probably one of the coolest inventions in photographic history. It basically allows you to print photographs onto anything and everything using standard darkroom procedures. You can print on wood, metal, glass, walls, even eggs! (Don…

During the late 1800's there was a group of photographers who made a conscious effort to focus their work on the artistic quality and aesthetics of an image, rather than be representational. This photographic movement was termed pictorialism. The imagery portrayed was often very similar to the trends in painting at the time, specifically the symbolist movement and the Pre-Raphaelite painters of Britain. Photographic prints were manipulated in the darkroom, printed on special papers and…

Renee Perle

Through a window. is a creation by the artist Roberto De Mitri. Category People, Female, Fine-Art, Melancholy, Photography, Medium-format film. Hasselblad 503CW, tripod,. medium format, black and white negative film, texture,. 9 distinctions, 23K views, 317…

Josef Sudek