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"The Pond—Moonlight" by Edward Steichen, taken in 1904

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Hope (1930s-1953) by Henry E. Gaze

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Autumn, 1910. George Henry Harlow. Pigment and platinum print.

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Late Afternoon, Venice, 1907 Edward Steichen (American; 1879–1973) Photogravure, printed 1913 Christie’s, New York

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Monday's Photography Inspiration - Robert Demachy

Robert Demachy was a French Pictorial photographer of the late 19th and early 20th century. He is best known for his intensely manipulated prints that display a distinct painterly quality. He was influenced by the Impressionist painters and spent most of his time making photographs and developing his theories on photography, both technical and aesthetic. Léon-Robert Demachy was born…

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The White Screen (1910) by George Henry Seeley

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Peter Henry Emerson is one of the most influential figures of the Pictorialist movement, which embraced photography as a fine art when most people viewed it as a mechanical, record-making tool. He greatly deepened the aesthetic theory of the medium through numerous books and portfolios in the 1880s and 1890s. Believing that photography was more naturalistic than the other arts (meaning that it came closer to replicating human experience), he advised photographers to avoid fictionalized scenes in favor of real ones. "The Skirt of the Village," 1887, by Peter Henry Emerson 

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Between Heaven and Humanity