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Article by Konstantinos Deloudis
Posted on February 16th, 2011
in Art & Metropolitan Museum of Art

Stielglitz, Streichen, Strand – a special exhibition of photographs hosted by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York featuring a total of 115 works by the American photographers.

Spotlighting the introduction of modernism into the realms of photography in the early 20th century, the works of Stielglitz moved away from the previously accepted style of photography as idealized and picturesque. He pioneered the methods of manipulating negatives and prints in order to resemble the effects of drawing and oil paintings. Stielglitz promoted the acceptance of photography as fine art. His protégé, Edward Streichen produced the most striking examples of this movement of Photo-Secession. The younger artist, Paul Strand, is represented by street photos in a realistic style and graphic strength of the emerging modernism that had begun to replace the accepted movement of Pictorialism.