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The Minimalist Photographer
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The Minimalist Photographer

by Steve Johnson
April 2013
Beginner
144 pages
4h 4m
English
Rocky Nook
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Chapter 8A History of Photography

In this chapter, I look at the major innovations in photography using a timeline approach. This is followed by a look at the major aesthetic movements within photography, from the birth of pictorialism to postmodernism. I will conclude with a section on Alfred Stieglitz, who I feel was the most influential person in 20th century visual arts in the United States. Stieglitz was closely involved in the birth of both pictorialism and modernism and, as if this was not enough, he was responsible for bringing the work of the great painters Picasso, Matisse, and Cézanne to an American audience.

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