Tag Archives: Pictorialism

Making a Mark

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Caroline Fellowes. Animal, Vegetable, Mineral 8. 2014

Caroline Fellowes.
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral 8. 2014

Caroline Fellowes. Animal, Vegetable, Mineral 1. 2014

Caroline Fellowes.
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral 1. 2014

These extraordinary pictures are by Caroline Fellowes, an artist who lives in France but is represented by a gallery in Derry, in Northern Ireland.   They are wonderful things, and I post them today because they happen to sit right in the middle of a number of conversations I seem to be having with increasingly frequency of late. Continue reading →

Making It Up Is So Very Hard To Do

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[Some thoughts on the show Making It Up: Photographic Fictions.] Continue reading →

Eduard Steichen at Voulangis

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Edward Stecihen. Untitled (Man with Cap and Cigar), c.1915.   Howard Greenberg Gallery

[Some discussion of a portrait of an unknown sitter by Edward Steichen, around 1915.] Continue reading →

The New Pictorialism

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[Way back in the nineteenth century a rift split photography.  On one side were those who self-consciously wanted to make art out of it, and who pursued effects of various kinds. Ranged against them were the Moderns, who believed that the camera’s technology made an aesthetic of its own, and who admired only plain photography.  By and large, the Moderns won, and the other camp – let’s call them Pictorialists – have had to retreat, but they have never disappeared.]

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