Truth and Beauty: Pictorialist Photography opens tomorrow. Photographers known as the Pictorialists worked around 1900 with the mission of proving the artistic merit of photography by strengthening its connections with the fine arts. To this end they made images that sought to represent truth and beauty; that were atmospheric; that had poetic, literary, or spiritual value; and that emphasized the role of the photographer as a craftsman. #photography #pictorialist #bostonarts

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