And let's not forget Steichen, Demachy, Davison, Sutcliffe, Begue, Henneberg, et al:
http://www.answers.com/topic/pictorialism
for a start.
Apart from any aesthetic concerns let's also not forget that this was a fin de siecle movement. Against the background of the Russian Revolutions and World War One this movement would evaporate in the face of industrialised warfare and social engineering on a vast and uncompromising scale. The Great Depression would follow, only ending with the mobilisation needed for WW2.
Pictorialism, and its latest manifestation, neo-pictorialism may have it's comforting aesthetic and pastoral and romantic charm but enjoy it while you can and wonder what we are in danger of hiding our heads in the sand from this time.
Now, where did I leave the digital bichromate?
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