1890–1910s | Photographers | History of Photography | Photo Coordinates |
1890–1910s was shaped by The High Tide of Pictorialism, Photo-Secession, and the Turn of the Century, a context in which photographic institutions and expression changed significantly. This era page organizes photographers, movements, and historical background so readers can trace how Documentary, Japanese Photography, and Pictorialism emerged within a wider history of photography. Use it as a chronological entry point from individual photographers to related countries, visual languages, and source-backed historical context.
Yasu Kohei appears in the record of Meiji photography as a figure connected to the development of studio and regional photographic practice in modern Japan.
Read detailsGertrude Kasebier believed that a portrait should be almost biographical, revealing the sitter's essential temperament and humanity rather than merely recording appearance.
Read detailsPeter Henry Emerson argued that photography should be truthful to human vision rather than to studio convention.
Read detailsAtget did not take up the camera until around 1897, when he was about forty.
Read detailsKamei Koreaki was a Japanese photographer and aristocratic patron active in the late Meiji period, remembered above all for the role he played in introducing and supporting Pictorialist ideas in Japan.
Read detailsRobert Demachy argued that nature might be beautiful, but it could not become art without the intervention of the artist.
Read detailsStieglitz made 291 and Camera Work a bridge from pictorialism to modern photography as museum art.
Read detailsKajima Seibei (1866-1924) was one of the most successful studio photographers of the Meiji period and a central figure in the history of photographic portraiture in Tokyo.
Read detailsTorii Ryuzo was a Japanese anthropologist and photographer whose work is crucial to understanding the relationship between photography, ethnography, and imperial knowledge in modern East Asia.
Read detailsPaul Geniaux was a French photographer associated with late Pictorialism and with the broader effort to secure photography's standing as an art at the turn of the twentieth century.
Read detailsLewis Hine was an American photographer and trained sociologist who used the camera as an instrument of social reform.
Read detailsEdward Steichen first embraced pictorialism because he believed photography could only claim equal status with painting if it looked painterly.
Read detailsJacques-Henri Lartigue began photographing as a child and produced a body of work that seems to crystallize the speed, leisure, and visual exhilaration of early twentieth-century modernity.
Read detailsEdward Weston began in pictorialist and studio photography before becoming a central figure of straight photography and Group f/64.
Read detailsLouis Vaire is an identity-audit entry.
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