* Impressionism

Impressionism

• Capturing real life
• Originates from France
• With the development of photography, the first black and white photograph being take in 1826, nineteenth century painters were challenged wot setting themselves apart from the medium.
• Pictures not posed and taken outside, not in a studio
• Real life
• The term impressionism comes from a painting by Claude Monet
• "simply impressions of life"
• Pierre Renoir
• Alfred Sisley
• Edgar Degas
• Eduard Mamet
• Black is avoided
• short, thick strokes
• "impasto"
• Textured acrylic paint
• vivid colour
• simultaneous contrast
• Natural light is emphasised 
• close attention is payed for reflection of light
• bouncing light
• Soft focus to make images to lookalike a painting
• isolating subject
• Karl Struss
• Stieglitz Winter
• Steven d'Agnostino
• Eva Polak
• Kat Clay
• Christopher Dysldjk
• Modern impressionist photography is called Photo impressionism
• it is meant to go one step further than traditional documentary photography and express the energy and movement

Techniques of Photo impressionism

• Camera shaking and panning
• Long exposure
• Selective focus on wide aperture
• Zoom and long shutter speed
• Taking pictures through glass/water
• A technique can include layers for multiple photos and opacity blending in photoshop to create the desired effect. 

Why style of photography does impressionism relate to?

• Realism 
• Documentary photography

Eva Polak