Photo-Secession
A group founded by Alfred Stieglitz in New York in 1902 to promote photography as a fine art.
In depth
The Secession ran its own gallery and published the journal Camera Work, whose photogravure reproductions set a standard for print quality that shaped how photographs were judged. Initially Pictorialist, Stieglitz's own position shifted toward the sharper, more direct approach that succeeded it, and the group dissolved by 1917.
Examples in practice
Camera Work's hand-pulled gravures were made to such a standard that they are collected as original prints today.