Photography
Write an essay that describes photography’s impact on Modernism, and on painting in particular.
For this choice, you will need to write at least 2 pages and include:
- At least 3 images/photographers or painters.
- Describe how photography changed the priorities of painting beginning in the 1840s.
- Describe how Alfred Stieglitz and Gallery 291 became a force in the American Avant-Garde.
- Talk about photography’s unique character as a Modernist tool in art. What makes photography particularly Modernist?