Pictorial photography was a movement, peaking in the early part of the 20th Century, which tried to emulate painting and etching Many pictorialists used soft focus, filters, Vaseline on the lens, various darkroom manipulations and processes to get a "painterly" look. Alfred Stieglitz (1864 - 1946) is a good general representative of the pictorialists. The movement is by no means dead, and many photographers working today still try to get a look that is sometimes anything but "photographic" in the sense of, say, Ansel Adams and the f/64 school, which emphasized very "straight" photography with crisp focus and infinite detail.
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