TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945
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English - October 09, 2010 20:42 - 2 minutes - 13.4 MB Video - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsVisual Arts Arts the phillips collection sunday concerts washington dc art museum duncan phillips phillips collection phillips collection music exhibitions Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this video, Phillips Collection curator Elsa Smithgall introduces special exhibition TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945, on view at The Phillips Collection Oct. 9, 2010 through Jan. 9, 2011.
Like impressionism, which challenged the traditions of painting, pictorialism expanded the possibilities of photography beyond the literal description of a subject. Pictorialist photographers produced some of the most spectacular photographs in the history of the medium and influenced subsequent developments in modernist photography. Comprising over 120 photographs, this exhibition retraces pictorialism's beginnings with the experiments of Hill and Adamson and Julia Margaret Cameron; through its mastery by Alfred Stieglitz, Gertrude Käsebier, and Alvin Langdon Coburn; to its lasting legacy in early works by Edward Weston and Imogen Cunningham.