https://padlet.com/vr3118/sw84iizexb46ueap en-us 2021-01-06 20:30:14 UTC 2021-01-08 05:53:37 UTC hello@padlet.com vr3118 https://padlet.com/vr3118/sw84iizexb46ueap/wish/1061360573 Frank Eugene was significant in the Pictorialist movement of the early 1900s, his pictures helped fortify the connection between painting and photography that led to his popularity. His Pictorialist works warranted his election to the Linked Ring Brotherhood in London in 1900 and recommended his work to Alfred Stieglitz, who in 1902 invited Eugene to be a founder-member of the Photo-Secession. Frank Eugene trained as a painter at the Royal Academy of Fine Art in Munich. Eugene was acclaimed for incorporating painterly techniques into his photographs, which were largely confined to portraits and nudes. ]]> 2021-01-06 22:47:41 UTC https://padlet.com/vr3118/sw84iizexb46ueap/wish/1061360573 vr3118 https://padlet.com/vr3118/sw84iizexb46ueap/wish/1061365185 F Holland Day was a Boston-based photographer and publisher whose aesthetic passions permeated all aspects of his life. Day’s photographs reflect his interests in literature and mythology. In 1900 Day organized The New School of American Photography, the first exhibition of American Pictorialist photography in Europe. The show was held in both London and Paris, and featured his own photographs as well as photographs from Edward Steichen, Gertrude Kasebier, and Clarence White. 
A fire in Day's Boston studio later in 1904 was what began Day's withdrawal from photography, but he gradually continued to make photographs, mostly in his comfort zone right by his country house in Boston. ]]> 2021-01-06 22:51:25 UTC https://padlet.com/vr3118/sw84iizexb46ueap/wish/1061365185 vr3118 https://padlet.com/vr3118/sw84iizexb46ueap/wish/1061387469 Edward Steichen was an American photographer widely renowned as one of the most prolific and influential figures in photography´s history. In 1910, he participated in the International Exhibition of Pictorial Photography in Buffalo.  This exhibition was quite popular and became an intimate space for the viewing and understanding of pictorialism in photography. He renounced painting shortly thereafter, along with the vestiges of Pictorialism, and adopted a modernist style as he grew older.]]> 2021-01-06 23:10:17 UTC https://padlet.com/vr3118/sw84iizexb46ueap/wish/1061387469 vr3118 https://padlet.com/vr3118/sw84iizexb46ueap/wish/1065125689 The video provided is a collection of Day's photographs. Day only used what was called platinum print for his photographs, which are prints made my a monochrome printing process involving platinum. The photographs then return out to be completely matte with a deposit of platinum. ]]> 2021-01-07 20:37:26 UTC https://padlet.com/vr3118/sw84iizexb46ueap/wish/1065125689 vr3118 https://padlet.com/vr3118/sw84iizexb46ueap/wish/1065409439 Before Frank Eugene got into photography, he was first recognized as an accomplished stage designer and painter. As he emerged into photography, he continued to combine strands of design into his photographic work. His photographic work is characterized by a distinctive style which emerged from his style of painting. He would manipulate his photogravures with multiple techniques, such as scratches and brush strokes, to increase their relation to paintings and graphics. You will notice how in the following photograph, Frank Eugene has the background of the image to look almost as if it were painted with added brush strokes. ]]> 2021-01-07 22:30:04 UTC https://padlet.com/vr3118/sw84iizexb46ueap/wish/1065409439 vr3118 https://padlet.com/vr3118/sw84iizexb46ueap/wish/1065464736 As pointed out in the last slide, very similar to the other photograph, Frank Eugene continues his style of a brush stroke painted background for this photograph as well. ]]> 2021-01-07 22:53:01 UTC https://padlet.com/vr3118/sw84iizexb46ueap/wish/1065464736 vr3118 https://padlet.com/vr3118/sw84iizexb46ueap/wish/1065474673 Steichen was introduced to photography and bought his first camera, a Kodak 50-exposure box camera, in 1895.During his 60 year photographic career, he was renowned as a photographer of nature, celebrity, architecture, fashion, advertising, war, and social commentary. He was also an accomplished painter, museum curator, and flower geneticist. In the following video, if you skip to 1:45 seconds, there are many of his photos in collections, including photographs in pictorialism as well. ]]> 2021-01-07 22:59:39 UTC https://padlet.com/vr3118/sw84iizexb46ueap/wish/1065474673