The Origins of the Social Usage of Photography

Abstract

AbstractThe article focuses on the dissemination of photography as a new social practice. The origins of the social use of photography can be found in the late nineteenth century when photography was imposed as an artistic medium by the pictorialist movement. Distancing themselves from the artistic canon of pictorialism, the clubs of amateur photographers generated a broad visual culture and set the standards for a new documentary practice of photography. This was especially the case in...