Pictorial Photography
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Pictorial Photography
A style of photography and imagery based on an application of the principles of fine art, and, in particular, on ideas of beauty and nature deriving from the Picturesque. Although specifically identified in the late 19th century and the early 20th, the underlying aesthetic was a response to the ongoing debate about photography’s scientific and artistic status. In this respect, the term ‘pictorial’ is defined in Henry Peach Robinson’s Pictorial Effect in Photography (1869), which
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