passionated photography pictorialism

Pictorialism is an international aesthetic movement that characterized photography between 1890 and 1914 approximately. It followed the spread of a new photographic process called “dry plate” or “gelatin-silver bromide” invented by Richard Leach Maddox in 1871

Pictorialism favors the human intervention, even manual, in the photographic creation

Various techniques were used to produce these images: important manipulations in the darkroom, special filters (including soft-focus), unusual treatments during development, use of special papers.

What all Pictorialist photographs have in common is their aesthetic and poetic approach to reality

Pictorialism is above all opposed to the verism of the photographic technique. It does not claim to compete with painting but seeks aesthetic links with it in the claim of photography as an art