What impact did photographic technology have on impressionist painters?
Pre-photography people relied on painters for portraits and other photo-realistic images. When photography came about, people immediately preferred it: It captured the desired image exactly, and it was faster than the process of making a painting–cheaper, too. this made painters of the time extremely nervous, because it meant that their business was basically finished. one painter exclaimed “Painting is dead!” at a photography presentation. painting had to take a turn that photography couldn’t, and so the impressionist movement was born, capturing more stylized images rather than realistic, something a camera couldn’t do.
