“The Photographic Eye,” a photo exhibition featuring the “Photo-Secession” collective including members Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Edmund Teske, Manual Alvarez-Bravo and other 20th-century artists, is on view through the month at the Tobey C. Moss Gallery, 7321 Beverly Blvd. near La Brea.
Since its first announcement in 1839, photography in its various forms has been defined as a means of fixing an image on paper, metal or glass. By the late 1880s and with the invention of the Kodak camera, photography came within reach of the average person living on a modest budget. Serious photographers, in an attempt to separate themselves from relentless amateurs, set out to create artistic images using a soft focus relating to the familiar painting techniques of the period.
Stieglitz was a passionate photographer who also published the magazine CameraWork between 1903 and 1917, promoting soft focus “pictorialism.” CameraWork presented stunning photogravures featuring the work of leading photographers of the period, including Paul Haviland, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Baron Adolf DeMeyer, Karl Struss and others.
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