Pictorialism was the first global movement to assert photography's status as a fine art, favoring atmosphere and soft focus over technical documentation. Luminous-Lint maps the international networks of the Photo-Secession and the Linked Ring, providing technical insights into the unique processes they championed.
| Introduction to Pictorialism |
| 1 | Introduction to Pictorialism |
| 2 | The roots of Pictorialism |
| 3 | Gum bichromate prints |
| Naturalism and Pictorialism |
| 4 | Naturalism and Pictorialism |
| 5 | Peter Henry Emerson (1856-1936) |
| 6 | Peter Henry Emerson: Marsh Leaves (1895) |
| Photo-Club de Paris |
| 7 | Photo-Club de Paris: Première Exposition d'Art Photographique - 1894 |
| 8 | Photo-Club de Paris: Deuxième Exposition d'Art Photographique - 1895 |
| 9 | Photo-Club de Paris: Troisième Exposition d'Art Photographique - 1896 |
| 10 | Photo-Club de Paris: Quatrième Année Salon de Photographie - 1897 |
| Key subjects for Pictorialism |
| 11 | Pictorialism and trees |
| 12 | Flowers: A Pictorialist perspective |
| 13 | Pictorialism and the landscape |
| 14 | Pictorialism and industry |
| 15 | Pictorialism: Landscapes of ice and snow |
| 16 | Pictorialism and the innocence of children |
| 17 | Pictorialism and the portrait |
| 18 | Pictorialism, the nude and erotica |
| 19 | Pictorialism and architecture |
| 20 | Pictorialism: Still lifes |
| 21 | Pictorialists and the Autochrome |
| Case studies |
| 22 | Robert Demachy: Struggle |
| 23 | Robert Demachy: Landscapes |
| 24 | Edouard Hannon: Belgium: Landscapes |
| 25 | Edward Steichen: The Flatiron |
| 26 | Edward Steichen: Rodin's statue of Balzac (1908) |
| 27 | Edward Steichen: Pictorialist portraits |
| 28 | Edward Steichen: Fashion portraits showing the clothing of fashion designer Paul Poiret for the French magazine "L'Art de la Robe" (April 1911) |
| 29 | Alvin Langdon Coburn: Portraits |
| 30 | Eva Watson-Schutze: Portraits |
| 31 | Mary Albert Wiggins: Pictorialist portraits |
| 32 | Gertrude Käsebier: Portraits |
| 33 | William Mortensen: Portraits |
| 34 | James Craig Annan: Venice and Lombardy: A Series of Original Photogravures (1896) |
| 35 | Alexander Keighley: Pictorialism |
| 36 | Clarence H. White: Portraits |
| 37 | Clarence H. White: Ring Toss (1899) |
| 38 | Edward S. Curtis and Pictorialism |
| 39 | William Dassonville: Trees |
| 40 | Adelaide Hanscom Leeson: Sonnets from the Portuguese (ca. 1916) |
| 41 | Anne Brigman: Pictorialist nudes |
| 42 | Edward Weston: Pictorialist portraits |
| 43 | Fred Judge: UK: Postcards |
| 44 | Japanese Art Photography preserved on Postcards |
| 45 | J. Craig Annan: Portraits |
| 46 | Charles Gaspar: Belgian Pictorialist |
| Concluding remarks |
| 47 | Conclusions on Pictorialism |
