Pictorialism Images

[Mark Sawyer]

I think Pictorialism was the only school to ever honestly, overtly go on a romantic journey in search of real magic in photography.

As good a definition as any...

[Amedeus]

bullethole

Let's keep the rules fuzzy, eh? I hate rules

Loving this one ...

[Jim Galli]

I do not know what pictorialism is, and after 87 posts in this thread I've read nothing to enlighten me.

- Leigh

Well, it's like this, except for that, and then there's other stuff too...

This 'n that.

2 roads to the same place. Some who are empty, try to make a big spiritual journey with massive depth and hidden meaning and voices from within and without and myths and fables and and and; other folks just go out and have fun making pictures.


Thanks to the folks who said nice things about the bullet hole image. Rudi was with me when I made it. I wasn't going to get the camera out of the car again but he inspires! Fun to shoot with someone once in a while.

[Zaitz]

bullethole

I'd like to call foul at having my name associated with the swirly bokeh phenomena. Out of hundreds of pictures I've posted over the years, there are perhaps 3 tastefully (or not) done that use swirl as a device.

Pictorialism is all about using some other device besides the straight image it's built around. Let's keep the rules fuzzy, eh? I hate rules

Love the composition! Great stuff.

[David Aimone]

This is my first contribution to the thread. It's a petzval lens with a test of a new development method (for me, divided pyrocat) which didn't work quite as expected, but interesting.

[goamules]

Nice shot David, I think this meets the aesthetic, to me. Rather than discussing and defining pictorialism in words , I'm glad people are posting their interpretations, photographically. I hope we see more, and I encourage interested people to look at the flickr group I linked above. There are some amazing modern pictorialist photographers out there that we'll never see if we just look here.

[SergeiR]

Well.. one of definitions for movement as the whole is that idea was to use cameras and negatives as tools to define new photographic reality of its own, as reflection of vision and mood of artist...

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Scan-130406-0009www by Sergei Rodionov, on Flickr

[JeRuFo]

This is my first contribution to the thread. It's a petzval lens with a test of a new development method (for me, divided pyrocat) which didn't work quite as expected, but interesting.

Great shot. Good example for the fact that you need a good starting point. Her movement worked out really well.

[Brian C. Miller]

I do not know what pictorialism is, and after 87 posts in this thread I've read nothing to enlighten me.

- Leigh

Just relax and look at the pretty pictures.

Jim: good bullet hole shot. The part that dominates isn't the bullet hole, it's the car roof. The bullet hole accentuates the roof's OOF.

[Scott Davis]

Nice one Scott. I wasn't aware of Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens.

Kenilworth is one of the hidden gems of DC. The neighborhood around it is pretty rough, and so as a non-local you'd NEVER stumble upon it, as it is located firmly in Southeast DC, an area tourists are strongly enjoined not to visit. That said, on any given warm summer day it is thronged with photographers going crazy for the giant water lilies and lotus blossoms.