pictorialist

In 1930 she came into contact with a group of photographers who rejected the painterly, "pictorialist" school of photography and embraced a style emphasizing clarity, precision, and abstraction.

Personal Information for Alma Lavenson Wahrhaftig Jewish Women's Archive 2010

In 1930 she came into contact with a group of photographers who rejected the painterly, "pictorialist" school of photography and embraced a style emphasizing clarity, precision, and abstraction.

Personal Information for Alma Lavenson Wahrhaftig 2010

The pictures at Robert Mann date from pictorialist Edwin Hale Lincoln's platinum print "Untitled (Still Life with Grapes)" (1912) to Kevin Kay's three Polaroid images of two naked women and some oranges, all titled "Citrine" (2011).

Taking Nature's Refuge William Meyers 2011

The first show fulfills one of the mandates Ms. Sviblova set for MHP, which is to educate her people about their own artistic heritage: One floor featured mostly soft-focus and sentimental pictorialist work from the first period, and on another floor photojournalism from the second.

Free Market Exposure William Meyers 2011

Study with photographer Clarence White at Columbia Teachers College inspired her interest in the practice of pictorialist photography, a genre which emphasized a painterly style for portraits and landscapes.

Personal Information for Doris May Ulmann Jewish Women's Archive 2010

Study with photographer Clarence White at Columbia Teachers College inspired her interest in the practice of pictorialist photography, a genre which emphasized a painterly style for portraits and landscapes.

Personal Information for Doris May Ulmann 2010

Photography fans could head off the beaten track, and back in time, by looking at a Phillips Collection show, launching Oct. 9, that explores the soft-focus imagery of the pictorialist movement, which flourished early last century.

Blake Gopnik: Fall gallery season full of under-the-radar gems 2010

So dedicated was Ulmann to Clarence White and the pictorialist genre that she and her surgeon husband, Charles H. Jaeger, joined him as cofounders of the Pictorial Photographers of America shortly after the end of World War I.

Doris May Ulmann. 2009

Inspired by the Impressionist painters, pictorialist photographers used large-format view cameras and soft-focus lenses to lend a painterly, dreamy quality to their idyllic landscapes and portraits.

Doris May Ulmann. 2009

Hurley was a fabulous pictorialist, not a reporter .

Frank Hurley and post-processing Ray Girvan 2004