The Coming Apocalypse: Kandinsky and Marc Never such innocence, Never before or since, As changed itself to past Without a word — the men Leaving the gardens tidy, The thousands of marriages Lasting a little while longer: Never such innocence again. ...
From Photo-Secession to 291 There is an old question, what came first, the chicken or the egg? For the history of photography, the question can be re-written: what come first Camera Work, the journalistic organ for the Photo-Secession or Photo-Secession itself? The...
Photo-Secession as Pictorialism Part One At the turn of the century, as the nineteenth century waned, it was quite possible to speak of a “beautiful photograph” or, more precisely, of a photograph of something “beautiful.” But that photograph...
Naturalistic Photography It all started with George Davison (1854 – 1930) and a deceptively simple image,originally titled, An Old Farmstead. This charming photograph, reminiscent of an Impressionist landscape, was awarded a medal at the annual exhibition of the...
The Annans, Father and Son From Document to Art Around 1890 the world of photographers changed. Before the end of the nineteenth century, photography had been very much an individual enterprise. The practitioner, whether amateur or professional customarily was...
The Brotherhood of the Linked Ring Part One, Becoming Artists In 1913 Henry Chapman Jones published a very useful book with a rather long title, Photography of to-Day. A Popular Account of the Origin, Progress and Latest Discoveries in the Photographer’s art,...
