The exhibit “Photo-Secession: Painterly Masterworks of Turn-of-the-Century Photography” is currently on view at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts in Salt Lake City through December 29. This exhibit celebrates a group of photographers on both sides of the Atlantic who fought to establish photography as a fully-fledged fine art — coequal with painting, sculpture, and print-making — at the turn of the 20th century. Their leader was Alfred Stieglitz, whose exhibition space, the “Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession,” and Camera Work magazine advanced the vision of the era’s most ambitious artist-photographers. Besides Stieglitz, artists in the exhibit include Heinrich Kühn, Gertrude Käsebier, Edward Steichen, Clarence White, and many others. Their work married traditional painting subject matter – landscape, allegorical study, nude, still life – to a suitably hand-crafted photographic print. The 78 works in this exhibit include examples of a variety of photographic printing techniques employed by the Pictorialists, such as platinum, gum- bichromate, carbon, cyanotype, photogravure, and bromoil prints.
Photo-Secession : Painterly Masterworks of Turn-of-the-Century Photography
Until December 29, 2024
Utah Museum of Fine Arts
410 Campus Center Dr,
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
https://umfa.utah.edu/
