Book Information:
| Title | Pictorialism in California - Photographs, 1900-1940 |
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| Subtitle | Photographs, 1900-1940 |
| Author | Wilson, Michael G., Reed, Dennis |
| Publisher | J. Paul Getty Museum |
| Publish Date | 1994 |
| ISBN | 0892363126 |
| Pages | 150 |
| Binding | |
| Notes | J. Paul Getty Museum/Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, Malibu and San Martino, CA, 1994. Hard Cover, 150 pp, foreword, preface, Northern Californis: The Heart of the Storm by Michael G. Wilson; Northern California Plates; Southern California Pictorialism: Its Modern Aspects by Dennis Reed; Southern California Plates; biographies, bibliography, lenders, index. J. Paul Getty Museum and the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery: First Edition, 1994. "'By the preservation of a harmonious balance of lines and light and shade, several objects are attained. The first and simplest result is the production of a pictorial effect'. So wrote British photographer Henry Peach Robinson in 1869. Seeking a 'pictorial effect' soon became known as pictorial photography, or Pictorialism. The romantic and painterly form of photography was the dominant style, both in Europe and in America, for a quarter century. In California in the early twentieth century, Pictorialism came to encompass works as varied as landscape studies, Hollywood portraits, and moody evocations of modern dance. Northern California practitioners included such celebrated names as Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Arnold Genthe, and Dorothea Lange, in Southern California, Louis Fleckentein, William Mortenson, Margrethe Mather, an Edward Weston were among the photographers who came under the influence of the Pictorialist movement. Published to coincide with complementary exhibitions at the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Huntington Library, this book, brings together some 100 photographs that illustrate the full range of Pictorialism in the northern and southern parts of the state, and includes essays by Michael G. Wilson and Dennis Reed, discussing the important aesthetic movement and the lives and careers of the Pictorialist photographers who worked in the early decades of the twentieth century." from the jacket flap. 4to. |
| URL | http://lccn.loc.gov/94014039 |
| TRRF Call No. | PH-00198 |
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