Pictorialism
I’ll be back to write my entry after I’ve taken my meds. My brain needs its 7am boost at the moment and it’s only 6.30am as I write this.
Georgia O’Keeffe, upside down because that’s how she was positioned on my window ledge and I had been thinking about Pictorial photography following a decision to make it a title for a special camera club competition. In some ways the choice of using Pictorial Architecture as the theme for a club competition seems to me to embed elements of an upside down decision. At the end of the 19c and beginning of the 20th a group of photographers who wanted photography to be seen as an art process and not just a documentary one started to use techniques that softened the image they could create photographically so that images were more about emotions and feelings. In recent years we have seen something of a rebirth of this movement as photographers today, aided by modern technology are exploring some of the same ideas. It seems to me that by linking Pictorialism to the word Architecture it might possibly result in chocolate box images that are a world away from what photographic artists today and in the past are aiming for.
So why Georgia O’Keeffe? Well she was married to Alfred Stieglitz who was a leading photographer within the Pictorialism movement and I think I got this very thick and dusty biography down from the top shelf thinking I’d look up some if the references - in the end Wikipedia and an internet search engine provided me with an easier way of researching.
Not a photography day for me, but I wanted to include a diary entry to record my visit to see my consultant, Dr Haque at the hospital. He had a trainee with him and and we all seemed to be in a good and positive mood. He was pleased to see me looking and acting so much better and I was pleased that he was happy with the way I was using the medication, so no changes to the meds routine I’ve got going. It is a bit restrictive round timing, especially round lunchtime and I’m still getting a few problems after lunch, but I’m so much better than I was and so relieved.
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