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Pictorialism started around in 1885 where it was first recognized.

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Pictorialism was a style of fine art photography. The photographer takes regular looking photographs but turns it into an artistic picture.

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With pictorialism on the rise between 1885 to 1915. The newly invented Kodak in 1888 was one of the easiest to use cameras for this type of photography at the time.

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After using a simple camera, pictorialist photographers started to use different methods to create their work. They started to use better and complex cameras. Also using gum bichromate printing and homemade emulsions.

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It seems with pictorialism, it has a very strong connection with actual artists/painters. Artists like Alvin Langdon Coburn and Edward Steichen took on both photography and painting at the same time.

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He was one of the popular pictorialist photographers in his era. The next photo was taken in 1904 in Lake George, during World War I.

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Also one of the key figures of pictorialism during the early 90s. He implemented cubism in his pictorialistic photographs.

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Alvin was also known for his nonobjective photographs in pictorialism. He then called them "Votographs" are photographs taken to resemble the looks of cubism, which is the photo above that was taken in 1917.

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Pictorialism started to die in popularity by 1920. But it didn't disappear until after World War II ended. The focus was then turned towards modernism.