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“Pictorialism,” as a loosely constituted, international movement advocating photography’s assimilation into the traditional fine arts, succeeded to the extent that it fostered widespread acceptance of the medium as “art” prior to World War I, but failed in the post-war period as its aesthetic agenda was condemned as antimodernist, agrarian, bourgeois, and imitative of outmoded, idealizing paintings. This two-day international symposium reconsiders and complicates the stylistic goals, methods,…See More