Activity #9

Today we take them for granted, but art was changed forever by the inventions of paper and the camera. Paper took it from walls to make art portable. The camera taught us how to see. The advantages of paper are very obvious, but the effects on art by the camera are not so often considered as I didn’t notice the effect until now. Before the camera, the task of recording appearances and events through paint and sculpture such as one of the paintings I chose for my blogs, Dempsey vs Firpo. The rules of perspectives also changed as a photo was as close to reality as you could get whereas a painter is showing their view on things.
Daguerreotype, the first practical photographic process by Jacques Daguerre, that made a single permanent image directly on a copper plate. This impact of photographic prints was as a theoretical force behind the development of Impressionism and invariably Post Impressionism. If a camera could capture a fuzzy impression of a scene, why couldn't an artist do the same? As film speeds improved, time-lapse photography or chronophotography influenced Futurist and Cubist painting in the first decades of the twentieth century. The Dada movement often incorporated various images in a collage format to show a form of protest or disgust after World War I in a less traditional form of art. Today photography is a full fledged art form as there is a camera now at every event or occasion documenting it forever.