Pictorialism is an artistic style in which images are made so that they are similar to paintings. The original reason behind this was because at first photography was not considered an art. In order to show the artistic possibilities of photography photographers made images with a soft focus and that showed classical objects or scenes. By doing this they resembled paintings in both look and context. The images shown above contain some of the elements of the pictorialism movement such as a classical scene or a soft focus. These images as well as the images below were taken on Holga camera's. Because of the narrow depth of field as well as the square framing of the images the Holga camera takes pictures that look as if the belong to the pictorialism movement.
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