Picto-Real

Pictorealism is aimed to free photography from its objective and mechanical accuracy and sought to revitalize a painting-like subjectivity through an artistic blurriness and soft contours of the photographed object. Historically, pictorealism has been developed in the same time of symbolism and shared the same counter-tendency toward the modern world. Then, tho old picto-real works were mostly nostalgic or without any time reference with historical, religious, mythological themes. The photos here try to examine the same zealous trial of picto-real photographers- like Robert Demachy, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Frank Eugene, Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz- who devote their creativity in the service of an art that is supposed to be more tha