In the beginning, photography was just considered a way of documenting things, places, movement, and the like. Pictorialism was the introduction of photographing in a more creative manner- making art over recording history. Focusing on aesthetics and expressing emotional content rather than factual.
Images where sometimes soft focused, the negatives scratched at, brushed and manipulated to capture a similar essence of a painting or drawing.
There are some key photographers who have done similar work- However I came across a very modern example by dance photohgrapher Kimene
The example shows a young girl- very close to looking like a painting on canvas. As this would have been taken in a very digitalise era, the photographer would have used photoshop to create this affect. It could be that she used a soft focus technique in camera before manipulating in photoshop.
There are many filters available in photoshop- artistic filters, sketch, textures etc.. you can customise each of them and apply to your photoshop in post.
Bruce Hemmingway has a blog called the New Pictotrialism http://thenewpictorialism.blogspot.com.au/
and he details the exact post production process he went through to create the image here of the girl on the stairs. It involves some basic adjustments, expansion of the canvas, a split tone treatment in and then a "RAYS" treatment from Digital Film Tools.
TOP IMAGE BY BRUCE HEMMINGWAY
BOTTOM IMAGE BY KIMENE.
I came across the image by chance when advised by a ballerina to view the work of this particular photographer, and it is the only one I saw in this style.
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