in order to establish photography as art, members of the aesthetic movement modelled their work on classical paintings, even copying the subjects and poses popularized by artists of the classical period. as the movement gained in popularity, photographers made a clear distinction between the elegant, artistic photography that conformed to the aesthetic standard used for paintings and the work of more realistic photographers that was beginning to appear
since they were cloudy because of the gum dichromate plate that allowed for manual intervention, the aesthetic prints were easily distinguished from the more modern prints, which came to be called straightfoward photographs. in contrast, the straightforward photographers produced images that were sharp and clear. whereas the proponents of the printmakers, the philosophy that surrounded the new photography rejected manipulation of either the subject matter or the print. the subjects included nature in its undisturbed state and people in everyday situations.
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