I have started to read Newhall's Aperture Monograph on P. H. Emerson. The images follow on from the work of Stieglitz, incorporating a more contemporary version of pictorial photography.
What is it that makes these pictorial? Is the pictorialism a subjective viewpoint. Are we forced to consider them this way, because we have read so or are there distinguishing characteristics which make the image pictorial?
His image entitled "Gathering Water Lillies" circa 1880s is special in terms of the water reflections and the light. The faces are important in this image, as the focus of light was not concentrated on the figures. This image still has the appearance of being a landscape and does have a 'soft' quality about the composition, much like Stieglitz, but what ,akes it pictorial?
My aim is to create a pictorial landscape image by trying out different methods at different lights and times of day, month and seasons. There is the possibility that only one good image may come of this.
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