Soft Focus on "SHORPY" but not limited....post some excellent examples

[Louis Pacilla]

This is a very excellent book from the past that I would guess is not new to most. If you've missed this you may want to give it a read/view. "The Valiant Knights of Daguerre" by Sadakichi Hartmann.

http://books.google.com/books?id=nor...page&q&f=false

[jp]

I recently bought this book on Ebay:

Truthbeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945
by Alison Nordstrom, Vancouver Art Gallery Staff (Contribution by), Alison Nordstrom (Contribution by)
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It's a beautiful book with 121 fine images from all over the world and stories about/from photographers and other people from that time period.

Indeed a nice book!

After the Photo-Secession: American Pictorial Photography, 1910-1955
Christian A. Peterson

is also nice.

Pictorialism into Modernism: The Clarence H. White School of Photography by Marianne Fulton

is also recommended if you like that edge/transition between the two.

[TheToadMen]

And here is a very good website with info, vintage publications and beautiful old examples of photogravures, a technique often used in Pictorialism:
http://www.photogravure.com/key_exam...s_glasgow.html

Or as it is eloquently described on the website:
"Celebrating the beauty and history of the photogravure process and the important role it has played in the evolution of fine art photography."

[DannL]

Steichen: The Master Prints 1895-1914

http://www.amazon.com/Steichen-The-M.../dp/0870705814

http://www.moma.org/docs/press_archi...19_15.pdf?2010


http://www.photogravure.com/collecti...chen,%20Edward


I can't say that I've seen any modern works that are as pleasing to the eye as Steichen's works. So, What happened to art and photography? When did they part ways? That's probably a topic worthy of a thread of it's own, I do think.