When we take photos, we tend to try to understand the objects that we are shooting better, which deepens the bond. Pictorialism is when you reinvent photography into art and focus on beauty, tonality, and composition. Abstract art is the art that does not have a direct relationship with real-life objects. Albert Renger-Patzsch was 12 when he first started to make photographs. In the early 1920s, he worked as a press photographer for the Chicago Tribune, and then he became a freelancer. In 1925 he published his first book, “The Choir Stalls of Cappenberg”, and another book, “The World is Beautiful” in 1928. He had his first museum exhibition in Lübeck in 1927. From his photographs on DX, I guess that Albert Renger-Patzsch liked to photograph objects that are in nature (trees and flowers), objects that we normally use like glass cups, and buildings. “The World is Beautiful” was the title for his second book. I think it is because he really loves nature, and whatever he encounters, and he takes photos of them to prove that the world is truly beautiful. Edward Weston decided to move away from pictorialism to the new Straight photography movement, I guess it is because Stielgliz became more and more popular, and Renger-Patzsch and the others were greatly influenced by him, so Weston decided to join in.  Aaron Siskind combined “straight photography” (full of details) and abstraction to create a new type of photography. Henry Fox Talbot,  Louis Daguerre, and Henry Peach Robinson were all influenced by straight photography. Andreas Gursky’s photographs can be considered abstract because he never films photos of real-world stuff. He usually creates lines of all kinds, and he also creates photos of different shapes. As for Uta Barth, he usually photographs things in a blur, so his work is also very abstract. I don’t think they are straight photographers, since they do not film the photos through the lens that they see it.                                                 

 

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