Photography Quotations to Inspire

"You don't make a photograph just with a camera.  You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved."  Ansel Adams.

Modernist Photography - A trend in Photography from roughly 1910 - 1950

Photography undergoes extraordinary changes in the early part of the twentieth century. Pictorialism which has dominated the medium for over fifty years is challenged by a new trend that calls for a more purist approach to photography, a plea for 'Straight Photography'.

Pictorialism an International Style & Aesthetic movement that dominated photography in the late 1800's and early 19th Century

PICTORIALISM, was an approach to photography that emphasised the beauty of the subject matter, its tonality and composition rather than the documentation of reality.

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