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What is impressionist photography?

Impressionist photography is inspired by impressionist painting. 19 from the mid-1960s to the 1980s, the impressionist painting movement prevailed in France. In order to oppose the stereotype of painting, the famous impressionist painters Monet and Renoir tried to reproduce the colors that convey the visual impression of objects in an atmosphere full of light. Although this innovative practical photography is long overdue, it has aroused important repercussions. The first person to accept the concept of Impressionism was Emerson, a British naturalist photographer mentioned earlier. Emerson put forward the theory of focus photography at that time, which once thought that the visual boundary of human beings was unclear, the middle part was clear and the edge part was blurred. In order to make the camera achieve the effect of human visual reproduction, he suggested that the photographer should not take the most clear image, but clearly show some complete details of the scene, so as to obtain a more natural effect. Although Emerson's "differential focusing" caused fierce opposition from the conservative British illustrated photography school, to Emerson's surprise, a photo can even completely lose focus on the picture, and this radical concept became the basis of later impressionist theory.