A photography movement that was based on the idea that art photography needed to emulate painting and etchings of the time.

Vogue from around 1885 to early 20th century

Stieglitz and Steichen

• Most of these pictures were black & white or sepia-toned.
• Used methods such as soft focus, special filters, and lens coatings, heavy manipulation in the darkroom, or etching of the surface of the prints 

Photography movement to produce pictures that looked like photographs rather than paintings

originated in the early years of the 20th century

Stieglitz

• Straight photography rejected the darkroom procedures of manipulation, as well as drawing on prints in favor of concentrating on the basic properties of the camera and printing process.
• Straight photography opposed Pictorialism.

A popular form of photography used to chronicle significant and historical events.

early years of the 20th century and 1930s

Lewis Hine, Dorothea Lange, Margaret Bourke-White, Walker Evans

• Typically covered in professional photojournalism, but can be used in artistic or academic pursuits.
• The photographyer attempts to produce truthful, objective, and usually candid photography of a particular subject or event.
• Most often pictures of people.

Dada is not a style or a number of styles by a worldview formed in reaction to World War I, the destructive aspects of the technological progress, and bourgeois ideals.

between 1915-23

Hannah Hoch, Marcel Duchamp

• The word "Dada" means nothing, according to the Dada artists.
• Artists in Dada-centers such as Zurich, Berlin, Cologne, Paris, Barcelona, and New York responded with art that was oppositional and irrational - simultaneously absurd and playful, confrontational and nihilistic, emotive and intuitive.

Mass-produced, common obbjects that were elevated to the status of art through the artist's designation

early 20th century, 1910's

Marcel Duchamp

• Appropriation of found or bought objects and made them into works of art by exhibiting them in an art context.
• This questions what is art and who decides what is art.
• Readymades challenge conventional ideas about art, such as originality, authorship, skill.
• Readymades are about the concept/ideas behind the object, not the object itself.

Art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns.

Many of works of conceptual art, sometimes called installations, may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions.

The process of making a composite image by cutting and joining a number of other photographs.

1920s

Hannah Hoch

• The composite picture is sometimes photographed so that the final image becomes a seamless photographic print.
• Can be compared to today's method of image-editing software.

Art inspired by popular culture, including advertisement and the media.

Late 1950s through 1960s

Warhol, Wesselmann, Oldenburg, Lictenstein

• Reaction to postwar consumerism.
• Critical reaction against preceding Abstract Expressionism.
• Ideas of disengagement of the artist's personal touch, focuses on mechanical look, and playfulness.

Art movement that opoosed the Modernist preoccupation with purity of form and technique, and aimed to eradicate the divisions between art, popular culture, and the media.

Late 20th century movement

• Postmodern artists employed influences from an array of past movements.
• Postmodernists embraced diversity and rejected the distinction between "high" and "low" art.
• Encourages the mix of ideas, media, and forms.