THE IMPRESSIONISTS AND PHOTOGRAPHY

Following the appearance of the earliest Daguerreotypes in the late 1830s and above all after the subsequent discovery of photograph ic printing on paper, the relationship between photography and painting became an extremely close one. The cameras artificial eye in the work of photographers such as Le Gray, Cuvelier, Nadar and Disderi, to mention just a few, stimulated Manet, Degas and the youn g Impressionists to develop a new way of looking at the world. Impressionism used the medium not just as an iconographic source but was also ...[Read more]