Government of India
Adolf Fassbinder
Keywords: Pictorial Photography
Photography
Artwork
Publisher: National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
Description: This photograph titled 'Adolf Fassbinder' was clicked by Gislain Lootens. Pictorial photography was characterised by images that resembled painterly techniques and a soft focus. It emphasised beauty, tonality and composition. There was an equal emphasis on printing techniques, bringing alive photographs to look like paintings. As pictorialist J.N. Unwalla put it, "when photography is used as a medium of depicting and preserving mere incidents it becomes at once mechanical, lifeless and unemotional and is deprived of its place in the fine arts. The aim of the photo-artist is to transmit his own emotions and ideas about his subject to those that view it. Be it a portrait, a figure-study, a landscape or even a still-life picture, it must have the stamp of that artists feelings". Often these images were staged, to express strongly the emotional and the dramatic such as this portrait of the photographer Adolf Fassbinder that has a dream-like quality achieved through manipulated printing and exposure techniques that lend it a slight blur and tonal variations characteristic of pictorialism.
Type: Photograph
Received From: National Gallery Of Modern Art, New Delhi
| DC Field | Value |
| dc.creator | Lootens, Gislain |
| dc.coverage.spatial | India |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-10-04T23:30:47Z |
| dc.date.available | 2020-10-04T23:30:47Z |
| dc.description | This photograph titled 'Adolf Fassbinder' was clicked by Gislain Lootens. Pictorial photography was characterised by images that resembled painterly techniques and a soft focus. It emphasised beauty, tonality and composition. There was an equal emphasis on printing techniques, bringing alive photographs to look like paintings. As pictorialist J.N. Unwalla put it, "when photography is used as a medium of depicting and preserving mere incidents it becomes at once mechanical, lifeless and unemotional and is deprived of its place in the fine arts. The aim of the photo-artist is to transmit his own emotions and ideas about his subject to those that view it. Be it a portrait, a figure-study, a landscape or even a still-life picture, it must have the stamp of that artists feelings". Often these images were staged, to express strongly the emotional and the dramatic such as this portrait of the photographer Adolf Fassbinder that has a dream-like quality achieved through manipulated printing and exposure techniques that lend it a slight blur and tonal variations characteristic of pictorialism. |
| dc.format.extent | 25 X 33 cm |
| dc.format.mimetype | image/jpg |
| dc.publisher | National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi |
| dc.subject | Pictorial Photography Photography Artwork |
| dc.type | Photograph |
| dc.identifier.accessionnumber | ngma-16975 |
| dc.format.medium | image |
| DC Field | Value |
| dc.creator | Lootens, Gislain |
| dc.coverage.spatial | India |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-10-04T23:30:47Z |
| dc.date.available | 2020-10-04T23:30:47Z |
| dc.description | This photograph titled 'Adolf Fassbinder' was clicked by Gislain Lootens. Pictorial photography was characterised by images that resembled painterly techniques and a soft focus. It emphasised beauty, tonality and composition. There was an equal emphasis on printing techniques, bringing alive photographs to look like paintings. As pictorialist J.N. Unwalla put it, "when photography is used as a medium of depicting and preserving mere incidents it becomes at once mechanical, lifeless and unemotional and is deprived of its place in the fine arts. The aim of the photo-artist is to transmit his own emotions and ideas about his subject to those that view it. Be it a portrait, a figure-study, a landscape or even a still-life picture, it must have the stamp of that artists feelings". Often these images were staged, to express strongly the emotional and the dramatic such as this portrait of the photographer Adolf Fassbinder that has a dream-like quality achieved through manipulated printing and exposure techniques that lend it a slight blur and tonal variations characteristic of pictorialism. |
| dc.format.extent | 25 X 33 cm |
| dc.format.mimetype | image/jpg |
| dc.publisher | National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi |
| dc.subject | Pictorial Photography Photography Artwork |
| dc.type | Photograph |
| dc.identifier.accessionnumber | ngma-16975 |
| dc.format.medium | image |
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