This week we talked about pictorial and pure photography and little bit of straight photography. Pictorial photography, a wide-ranging term, generally designate photographs in which picturesque qualities are consider of greater importance than subject information. 

 

I chose this image by Julia Margaret Cameron of Sir John Erschell because her style of work is not just photographing something, it's not just photographing an object. She has her own artistic interpretation where by there's a kind unfocused blur in her portraits/ photographs. She broke away from pictorial standards and constructed her own style of artistic blur to create a different mood for the image. 

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So for pictorial photography, instead of JUST taking photographs, it was encouraged that artists should express their personal impressions onto the images whereas straight photography is purely an image untouched by the artist but taken by the artist at the decisive moment. Visually it's like a happenstance, a coincidence, and that all it takes is just one shot. 

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These two drastically different approaches is good in a way that artists can find an outlet suitable for them to express themselves creatively with no rules. 

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