August 2017
Intermediate to advanced
294 pages
15h 47m
English
The hand altering of photographic images began soon after the daguerreotype process was made public in 1839 to compensate for the latter's inability to record color. By the beginning of the twentieth century hand-altered work was popular with the foremost Pictorialists, such as Edward Steichen, Frank Eugene, and Gertrude Kasebier, whose images often resembled drawings, lithographs, and paintings. They hand-altered their work to demonstrate that photography was more than an automatic mechanical process, and could be controlled and manipulated with the same expressive intent as traditional art forms. Today hand-altered processes are not done for compensation ...
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