After visiting the May Gallery for my first arts review, I was inspired to go home and mess with my own camera. After taking some photos of the scenery by my house on my phone’s camera, I became curious about the history of photography and wanted to discover how the art changed over time. Naturally, I did some research on the origins of photography, on how and why it adapted, and finally looked into modern adaptations and uses.
Less than 200 years old, photography is a relatively new art form that has continually undergone changes and improvements in its short existence. Even though the exact origins of photography have been debated, the invention of the daguerreotype in 1839 has generally been accepted as the birth of photography. According to Adam Welch in his article The Evolution of Photography, this photographic process involves “applying mercury fumes to the exposed silver plate to make the “latent” image” which takes approximately 15 minutes …show more content…
Back when the purpose of art was to accurately portray and resemble something real, photography consistently gave a more lifelike image than paintings and sculptures alike, putting pressure on artists everywhere. In order to keep their jobs, painters decided to give up on trying to make something lifelike which “opened up new fields for painting to explore light and color”(Cobbold), creating the impressionist movement and more abstract forms of art. Then, once paintings became more abstract, “photographers eventually began experimenting with abstraction too” (McNatt), so that they would be considered as real artists. As a result of photography, art as a whole moved away from realism as artists experimented with different mediums and tools.This goes to show one shouldn’t fear change like the painters did, but should adapt and change as
Less than 200 years old, photography is a relatively new art form that has continually undergone changes and improvements in its short existence. Even though the exact origins of photography have been debated, the invention of the daguerreotype in 1839 has generally been accepted as the birth of photography. According to Adam Welch in his article The Evolution of Photography, this photographic process involves “applying mercury fumes to the exposed silver plate to make the “latent” image” which takes approximately 15 minutes …show more content…
Back when the purpose of art was to accurately portray and resemble something real, photography consistently gave a more lifelike image than paintings and sculptures alike, putting pressure on artists everywhere. In order to keep their jobs, painters decided to give up on trying to make something lifelike which “opened up new fields for painting to explore light and color”(Cobbold), creating the impressionist movement and more abstract forms of art. Then, once paintings became more abstract, “photographers eventually began experimenting with abstraction too” (McNatt), so that they would be considered as real artists. As a result of photography, art as a whole moved away from realism as artists experimented with different mediums and tools.This goes to show one shouldn’t fear change like the painters did, but should adapt and change as