Genres, Movements & Theory
12 terms
Photo Essay
A sequence of photographs arranged to develop an argument or narrative that no single image could carry.
Genres, Movements & TheoryPhoto-Secession
A group founded by Alfred Stieglitz in New York in 1902 to promote photography as a fine art.
Genres, Movements & TheoryPhotographic Ethics
The body of principles governing how photographers treat subjects, audiences and the truthfulness of their images.
Genres, Movements & TheoryPhotographic Series
A set of images made to a consistent rule or format, where the repetition itself carries meaning.
Genres, Movements & TheoryPhotographic Truth
The contested assumption that a photograph is a reliable record of what was in front of the camera.
Genres, Movements & TheoryPhotojournalism
Photography made to report news, bound by professional standards of accuracy and non-interference.
Genres, Movements & TheoryPictorialism
A movement from the 1880s to the 1910s that sought recognition for photography as art by imitating painting and printmaking.
Genres, Movements & TheoryPortraiture
Photography whose subject is a person, aiming to convey something of their character, role or presence.
Genres, Movements & TheoryPostmodern Appropriation
An artistic strategy of rephotographing or reusing existing images to question authorship, originality and the circulation of pictures.
Genres, Movements & TheoryProduct Photography
Photography of goods for sale, prioritising accurate description of form, colour and material.
Genres, Movements & TheoryProvoke
A short-lived Japanese photography magazine of 1968-70 whose grainy, blurred, high-contrast style challenged documentary convention.
Genres, Movements & TheoryPunctum
Roland Barthes's term for the detail in a photograph that pierces the individual viewer and gives it personal force.