New ways of Seeing
The first successful photography was
made in 1826 by Nicephore Niepce (1765-1833), a French lithographer. Ten
years later Jacques Daguerre (1789-1851) was experimenting with the process
that bears his name. In 1888, Geoge Eastman (1854-1932) introduced the
box camera. The introduction of photography revolutionized the art of drawing
and painting. It also changed the way we see things. A camera can lie,
a million publicity photos prove this to be so. A good photographer can
manage to cut through even our most cherished illusion, that the poor can
be happy despite their poverty, or that suffering is always noble. Painting
was relieved of the necessity of communicating the result was an explosion
of new styles and methodes (impressionism, cubism, dadaisme, surrealisme
and even photorealisme).
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