Pictorialism in California Photographs 1900-1940 |
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| Editor:
| Wilson, Michael G.
Reed, Dennis |
| ISBN: | 978-0-89236-313-1 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1994 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $30.00 |
Book Description:
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Photographic Pictorialism was an early twentieth-century movement that had its goal the romantic expression of forms of beauty. In California, Pictorialism took forms as varied as landscape photographs, Hollywood portraits, and moody evocations of modern dance. This book contains one hundred photographs that illustrate the full range of the Pictorialist movement in Northern and in Southern California. It includes images by such well-known Pictorialists as Ansel Adams, Imogene...
More DescriptionPhotographic Pictorialism was an early twentieth-century movement that had its goal the romantic expression of forms of beauty. In California, Pictorialism took forms as varied as landscape photographs, Hollywood portraits, and moody evocations of modern dance. This book contains one hundred photographs that illustrate the full range of the Pictorialist movement in Northern and in Southern California. It includes images by such well-known Pictorialists as Ansel Adams, Imogene Cunningham, and Edward Weston.