Photography and Art
The invention of photography during the 19th century-and its further development in the 20th, with the additional capacity for color and motion-made it possible to capture accurate two-dimensional images directly, without the talents of artists and painters. And yet the visual arts continued to thrive.
Which elements of the painterly traditions transferred easily into the composition of photographs and which did not? How might the availability of photography have contributed to changes in the style employed by painters during this period?