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Despite the aim of artistic expression, the best of such photographs paralleled the Impressionist style then current in painting and, looking back from the present day, we can also see close parallel between the composition and picturesque subject of genre paintings and the bulk of pictorialist photography. The 1911 Britannica encylopedia noted that: "as a distinct movement pictorial photography is essentially of British origin", although in its later phases there was a strong influence on American photography. The Linked Ring and The New American School were notable organised tendencies in Pictorialism around 1900. An American circle of photographers later renounced pictorialism altogether and went on to found Group F/64 , which espoused the ideal of unmanipulated, or Straight Photography . The contemporary American portraitist Sally Mann revisited the pictorialist style in her 2003 book ''What Remains''. |