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An 8 page essay on the influence that photography had on Impressionism and art in the 19th Century. The writer argues that these include viewpoint, realistic public scenes in light of cubist methods, and the use of light. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Despite Baudelaires view of photography, Sir Lawrence Gowing attributes photography with the main influence of the choice of urban scenes by the avant-garde Impressionists that Baudelaire also influenced (Gowing 797).
In fact, the realistic view of life, the crowd scenes, even the private scenes of the Impressionist era reflect a photographic view of the urban scene, not only in
terms of viewpoint, but also in terms of techniques. In circular fashion, artistic photography became based on the "nature as art" theme of painting, and photography emerged as an
expression of realism which incorporated the lighting and cubist techniques of the Impressionists. Gowing writes: "Contemporary photography has been cited as an
influence on the urban scenes of Degas and the Impressionists, but for several reasons it seems unlikely that it played any real part in dictating the type of compositions they
used. Its instantaneous effects were quite alien to Degas careful planning of his compositions, and the effects of studied asymmetry, which Degas favored, appear before any such devices became
popular in photography..." (Gowing 797-798). Gowing postulates that it was the Impressionists that influenced photography, based on the hypothesis that artists of the period were concerned with viewpoint.
However, the Impressionist period began about the same time that photography was invented, and because of the change in viewpoint, the influence of photography upon fine art cannot be entirely
dismissed. Two types of photographs were invented in the same year, 1939. The daguerreotype was invented by Francois Arago, acting on behalf
of Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre. It is an image that transfers an image via a photochemical process onto polished metal (Danto 305). It is an expensive process and cannot be
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