What is impressionist photography? The Origin and Historical Review of Impressionist Photography

There are not many people who recognize impressionist photography now, even if there are, it is a small number of people. It's easy to understand. Not everyone can release their emotions when they slow down the shutter. From 65438 to 0889, the first exhibition of French impressionist painting was held in England. Under the influence of the painter Robinson, he put forward the aesthetic standard that "soft tone photography is more beautiful than sharp tone photography" and advocated "soft tone" photography. This school is the reflection of painting impressionism in the field of photography. "Soft-tone" photography is an emotional release that I pursue. It is like a dream, but it has some subjective feelings. What bothers Impressionist photography is the aesthetic standard that "soft tone photography is more beautiful than sharp tone photography". However, if you don't understand simple imitation, no one thinks you are making a photographic work. I only give you cynicism. Impressionist photography Impressionist photography is inspired by impressionist painting. 19 from the mid-1960s to the 1980s, the impressionist painting movement prevailed in France. In order to oppose the stereotype of painting, the famous impressionist painters Monet and Renoir tried to reproduce the colors that convey the visual impression of objects in an atmosphere full of light. This innovative practice has aroused important repercussions in the photography industry, although it came late. The first person to accept the concept of Impressionism was actually the British naturalist Emerson. Emerson put forward the theory of focus photography at that time, which once thought that the visual boundary of human beings was unclear, the middle part was clear and the edge part was blurred. In order to make the camera achieve the effect of human visual reproduction, he suggested that the photographer should not take the most clear image, but clearly show some complete details of the scene, so as to obtain a more natural effect. Although Emerson's "differential focusing" caused fierce opposition from the conservative British illustrated photography school, to Emerson's surprise, a photo can even completely lose focus on the picture, and this radical concept became the basis of later impressionist theory. Onion Land 1890 George Davidson (1856- 1930), who later became the manager of Kodak Company Limited in London, England, insisted in a lecture on "Impressionism in Photography" that although sharpness and clarity are essential for some photos, they may be completely usable in other cases. He believes that the decisive factor is the photographer's artistic concept. In order to illustrate his point of view, he exhibited a classic photographic work "Onion Land" which later became the history of photography. This unfocused photo, which looks completely "impressionist", was actually taken with a pinhole on the metal sheet instead of a lens. Davidson's approach immediately attracted the interest of a large number of young photographers. They use pinhole lenses and special soft-focus lenses to give a completely hazy impression on photography, or use diffusion filters in printing, and even begin to dramatically repair negatives or directly apply brushes to photos to achieve a hazy effect. Generally speaking, impressionist photography has created a romantic style, which is completely different from traditional photo photography. Impressionist photography is mainly influenced by British photographer John Dudley Johnston (1868- 1955) and French photographer Robert Demachy (1859- 1936). In addition, impressionist photography has caused quite a stir in the United States. Many members of the photographic separatism mentioned later, such as Edward Steken and Alvin Langdon Cobain, held an exhibition of "New School of American Pictorial Photography" in London in 1900. Although it was also a hazy picture, unlike the British, they did not apply impressionist techniques to landscapes and portraits, but sought inspiration from daily life. Of course, impressionist photography does not always win applause. Some critics mercilessly satirize these "schools of photographic blurred images", and even writers who sympathize with photography like Bernard Shaw admit that they don't like these new "distorted photographers" very much. In the past ten years, with the rapid change of photography concept, many impressionist photographers abandoned this style and re-explored the possibility of uncontrolled and "direct" photography, thus laying the foundation for the emergence of direct photography. Impression of Liverpool [1906] J. DeDelier's "Park Cleaner" [1900] Some people in Croia will tell you that impressionist photography is shot with soft-focus lens and developed with woven paper to pursue a vague artistic expression effect. With the appearance of "silver bromide development method" and paper development method with dichromate glue in pigment, impressionist works developed from the control of lens imaging to darkroom processing. They put forward that "works should look nothing like photos" and "if there is no painting, there is no real photography". Impressionist photographers also use brushes, pencils and erasers to process pictures, deliberately changing their original light and shade changes and pursuing the effect of "painting". For example, La Croia's The Park Sweeper, written in 1900, is like a charcoal pen drawn on a canvas. Impressionist photographers have completely lost the characteristics of their own photography art, so some people call them "imitators". It can be said to be a branch of painting photography. The artistic features of this genre are gloomy tone, rough shadow lines and rich decoration, but lack of sense of space.