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Photo-Secession Photography
Photo-Secession is an important thread within the history of photography. It can be understood as a group founded by Alfred Stieglitz in New York in 1902. This movement page brings together photographers, eras, and related contexts so readers can see how the approach developed, where it circulated, and which artists help define its historical position.
Basic facts
MovementPhoto-Secession
Photographers3
Overview
A group founded by Alfred Stieglitz in New York in 1902. Based around Gallery 291 and the journal Camera Work, it worked to have photography recognized as an art equal to painting.
Photographers
🇺🇸US1852–1934
Gertrude Käsebier
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Pictorialism
PictorialismPhoto-Secession+1
Gertrude Kasebier believed that a portrait should be almost biographical, revealing the sitter's essential temperament and humanity rather than merely recording appearance.