In the early part of the twentieth century, the photo secession, led by Stieglitz in "Camera Work," attempted to raise photography to the level of art by introducing a form of fine art photography characterized by soft focus and often heavily manipulated. ... http://www.squidoo.com/pictorialism Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:01:47 -0600 FeedCreator 1.7.2 Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:31:32 -0600 http://www.squidoo.com/pictorialism In the early part of the twentieth century, the photo secession, led by Stieglitz in "Camera Work," attempted to raise photography to the level of art by introducing a form of fine art photography characterized by soft focus and often heavily manipulated. Although often castigated as sentimental and mawkish by later "straight" photographers, many pictorialist photographers -- such as William Mortensen, Clarence White and Karl Struss -- succeeded in creating beautiful evocative works that deserve more recognition than they have received. The purpose of this lens is to give long overdue recognition to leaders of the pictorialist movement as well as to describe the use of pictorialist techiques in my own work. Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:31:32 -0600