Expressive photography focuses on conveying emotion and personal expression rather than creating literal depictions, documentation, or commercial images. It aims to capture the photographer's feelings about a subject rather than the objective appearance. This style emphasizes using photography as a subjective, creative medium.
1. Expressive Photography
When it’s not pictorial, not
documentary, and not commercial,
what is it?
2. Resources
Heilbrun Timeline of Art
• http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/intro/atr/atr.htm
• A chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history
of art from around the world, as illustrated by the Metropolitan
Museum's collection.
The George Eastman House Museum of Photography
• http://www.geh.org.
Haus, Andreas and Frizot, Michael. “Figures of style: New Vision, New
photography.” in A New History of Photography, ed. by Frizot, M. Chap
27, 457-467. KÖNEMAN, Koln, 1998.
3. “New Photography”
Stieglitz Pictorial background Moholy-Nagy Bauhaus
Minor White-Spiritual Callahan New Bauhaus-Inst. Design
↘ ↙
Laughlin-Spiritual ⇔ Siskin-Institute of Design
⇓
F. Sommer-Self taught ⇔ Metzker-Institute of Design
↘ ↙
Meatyard-Self-taught
Gibson-US Navy & self-taught
24. Stieglitz
• The image captured not the thing, but the
feeling he had at the time he tripped the
shutter.
• Photography was not necessarily
pictorial, straight, or documentary;it could be
subjective and expressive.
