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This was exactly my thought too. Why bother with all this hustle when the final images are so blurred that they might as well have been painted from the start.

• aaronbrethorst 12y ago
  There was a trend in photography that began at the end of the 19th century called Pictorialism, which emphasized soft focus and significant retouching[1]. It began to fall out of fashion in the nineteen-teens when its most prominent voice, Alfred Stieglitz, embraced modernism[2]. Interestingly, even Ansel Adams started as a pictorialist before embracing "straight" photography. Adams became an incredibly outspoken critic of pictorialism, going so far as to call the last well-known pictorialist, William Mortensen, "the antichrist" years after Mortensen's death[3]. Of course, these things have a way of going full-circle, and—today—digital pictorialism is the big thing. It'll pass in a few years. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictorialism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictorialism (some images below the fold are NSFW'ish) [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Stieglitz#O.27Keeffe_and_modern_art_.281918.E2.80.931924.29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Stieglitz#O.27Keeffe_and... [3] http://www.ishootfilm.org/blog/2014/10/20/11-the-incredibly-bad-taste-of-william-mortensen http://www.ishootfilm.org/blog/2014/10/20/11-the-incredibly-...
  • 001sky 12y ago
    This is just a glorified commercial-style shoot. Look at the credits at the end.