Romanticism and Realism - Realism - The Rise of Photography
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Photography was invented simultaneously in England and France.
When and by whom?
- 1839
- England:
- Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877)
- France:
- Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre (1787-1851).
Photography was seen as a great tool for Realism artists.
Why?
Which painting genre rapidly declined in popularity for a while, due to the daguerreotype photo's?
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Who was Eadweard Murybridge?
- Eadweard Murybridge (1830-1904) was responsible for recording the first "motion picture" in 1872.
- He lined up a series of camera's for the first recording of the muscular and physical movements of an animal in motion.
- Fun fact: Murybridge was hire to do this by former governor of California, Leland Standford, to win a bet with a friend, in which he claimed that a horse at one point has all four feet of the ground when running.
Who was Alfred Stieglitz?
- Alfred Stieglitz was an American photographer, who captured the hustle, streets and skylines of the early modern era.
- He is the maker of the classic photograph, Winter, Fifth Avenue (1893).
- Besides being a photographer, Stieglitz is the person most responsible for introducing European avant-garde art in the United-States.
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