Modernism.

Modernism is a movement which dates roughly from the 1860's to the 1970's. Modernism is a word used to describe the style of artwork produced during that time, although people concluded that any new art work produced during those 110 years was going to fall under the 'modernism' title, due to the fact that it was always something newer than the piece of art work before it.
However one question I ask is 'Is photography art?' Clarence White is renounced for being a master of fine art photography; he was part of the group formed by Alfred Stieglitz in 1920 who went by the name 'Photo-Secession'. This group took a fresh approach to photography, they made people look at it as an art form, and they recreated photographs out of the same objects found in paintings of that time. They took allot of their ideas and concepts from paintings or prints. They also used several different types of printing techniques, this combined with soft focus made the photographs look more like paintings or drawings.
However, Alfred Stieglitz moved on from what people referred to as 'pictorialist' images to a more detached and sharp approach to photographing. Therefore leaving this form of photography in the hands of Clarence White.