Pictorialism S01E05
50 years after it was invented, photography once again sought to rival painting. The debate was as old as photography itself: is photography merely a simple, mechanical "imitation" of reality, or can it interpret reality subjectively, as drawing and painting can?
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Surrealist Photography
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The Primitives of Photography, 1850-1860
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The New German Objectivity
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Staged Photography
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Pictorialism
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New Vision: Experimental Photography of the 1920s
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Photographing Intimacy
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The Inventors
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Found Images
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Press Usage
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Conceptual Photography
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After the Photo
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