>>4768327I can’t speak for OP but I know from my days when I was obsessed with turn of the century art as well as being still somewhat in a /beg/ phase you ho through this stage of hoping the magic is somehow to be found in the paper, the materials, the artifacts of the era, the styles worn by the models.
As for the era, I think it was the last time when our desired skillset was held in highest regard as an ideal in art. High art, not fan art, or comics, or entertainment design etc. perhaps we hope if we can get to that level the same regard will be bestowed on us.
There’s no talking people out of that, really, if they are stuck in it. I know I was.
It’s main value in retrospect was that it was a process of elimination. Trying all the materials and sources, gradually removing all hope that there were secrets and techniques and methods back then that can save us the drudgery of hard work and study and developing our skill using our boring, unaesthetic modern materials, courses and references.
If you make it through this phase and develop your own “voice” and ability, it can seem to have some kind of indirect positive effect on your work.
As for OP’s questions do a google image search using “ stieglitz photographs”
