Prominent Photographers
Photo secession, was the first influential group of American Photographers. This group worked to have photography as art. It was led by Alfred Stieglitz, other people in this group included Edward Steichen, Clarence H.White, Gertrude Kasibier, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.
Alfred Stiglitzs - https://www.wikiart.org/en/alfred-stieglitz/the-terminal-1892
Edward Steichen - https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/objects/self-portrait-with-brush-and-palette
Gertrude Kasebier -
https://www.moma.org/artists/3008
History
The Photo-secession was an early 20th-century movement that supported photographic pictorialism in particular and photography as a fine art general. Photo-secession was the first group of American photographers who fought for recognition of photography
Arts World
During the 1900’s art was expressed through the use of intense colour, lines, a bold sense of surface designs, and also flat composition. Although this was what art was during this time. Photographers wanted their work to create more of a photograph rather than a painting. They wanted to value the qualities that were unique to photography.
Technology