Photo-Secession= early 1900’s movement (1902-1907) that promoted photography as a fine art in general, especially Pictorialism. In 1902, Alfred Stieglitz led this group of photographers that helped to raise awareness of their art photography. They emphasized the way that photographers manipulated their subjects to achieve their vision, not simply what was in front of the camera. Pictorialism photographers wanted to reflect the painting of the time—art was altered to portray a certain effect, so photographers should also change their styles.

1. Alfred Stieglitz: one of the greatest American artists; 8 of the 9 highest prices ever paid at auctions are Stieglitz’s photographs of Georgia O’Keefe

2. Sarah Choate Sears: watercolorist and photographer; also worked a lot with etching; part of the Stieglitz’s Pictorialists; F. Holland Day included 5 of her photographs in his New American Photography exhibition that traveled to Paris and London

3. F. Holland Day: first photographer in the US to advocate that photography should be considered fine art; 2,000 of his prints and negatives were lost in a 1904 fire- the few hundred that survived were sent to the Royal Photographic Society in the 1930s; the high point of his career= the organization of an exhibition of photographs at the Royal Photographic Society in 1900