Pictorical Photography

In the beginning photography was used to document buildings, monuments or landscape. Subsequently it found it is maximum use in portraiture. This lead to the establishment of a number of studios specializing in portraits. Initially, it was feared that photography would replace painting as a medium.

The relationship between photography and painting was an ambiguous one. Painters used photography to get special angles and perspectives with the camera. However, photographers using the camera as a medium in its own right became pictorialists. They used the camera in creating images, which were either sentimental or allegories.

In the 20th century, photography in the hands of a few sensitive photographers became recognized as an art medium in its own right. Some of the famous names were Clarence H, White, Eugene Atget, Lewis W. Hine and also Alfred Steglitz, Edward Weston and Ansel Adams. However, photographers in the 19th century, like Raja Deen Dayal had already been using the camera as a medium for art photography and photographed various temples, railway lines and landscapes, which later were recognized as Works of Art.

Raja Deen Dayal himself produced a very large number of photographs, which were exhibited in Art Exhibitions through out India and in major exhibitions in USA, UK, Spain and other countries.