Blurry photos are becoming more and more popular among wedding photographers. Last year, wedding photographer Asantae Haanstad posted a video on TikTok showing an example of a blurry photo she had taken of a newlywed couple alongside the caption “This is why you need to ask your photographer for blurry pictures on your wedding.” The TikTok was a controversial hit, with people debating on both sides whether the style is appropriate for weddings. However, this is not a new trend in photograph. Merely twenty years after the invention of photography, a small cluster of artists who would later become known as the Pictorialists had decided the style of popular lens design was too sharp for their taste, and began to seek out ways to soften the image. Typically, a pictorial photograph appears to lack a sharp focus (some more so than others), is printed in one or more colors other than black-and-white (ranging from warm brown to deep blue) and may have visible brush strokes or other manipulation of the surface. For the pictorialist, a photograph, like a painting, drawing or engraving, was a way of projecting an emotional intent into the viewer's realm of imagination