The influence of camera on painting?

Strictly speaking, taking pictures with a camera is the art of photography. After the birth of western photography, in the early infancy of imitating painting, photographers photographed landscapes and painters watched them as well. Because the complicated operation procedures are not much different from painting. Photographers, like any traditional video artist, will carefully prepare for the substantive start of creation. They will make their own humidity-sensitive films and expose them in a temporary darkroom (tent), waiting for and looking for the most suitable light for shooting (artificial light sources were not born at that time). In this long preparation process, various historical and artistic visual experiences will accidentally interfere with and affect the photographer's preparation for framing.

Therefore, the early tendency of photography and painting, on the one hand, is due to the photographer's active approach to painting in aesthetic consciousness, on the other hand, is the way and process of creation, which ensures and forces their creation to maintain the original relationship with painting.

With the gradual improvement of shooting conditions, the concept of photography is also changing rapidly.

Photographers don't have to make long and complicated labor preparations for each creation as in the early days. High-speed photographic film and portable camera can solidify the flowing natural time and fleeting social life in the instant exposure when the shutter is opened.

However, how to grasp the moment that best suits one's wishes in the change and let this moment have its own "aesthetic significance" has become the biggest purpose of photographers' self-challenge.

Through physical optics and chemical means, human beings finally stopped and left the fleeting time, thus bidding farewell to the era of human manual description of nature and beginning a new history of human rapid transformation of nature into images through machinery and drugs. In this regard, Paul Delaroche commented on 1839 when photography appeared in Daguerre: "As of today, painting is dead".

Now it seems that only classical painting died, or, it can be said, painting was really born.

Painters do not have to bear the responsibility of imitating and depicting objective images, but pay attention to proportional perspective and anatomical structure, and consider realistic imitation of modeling, space and texture. They can even get rid of the shackles of "reappearing art" and let painters describe their subjective wishes. Then, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism, Dadaism, Expressionism, Abstraction, Action Painting, Pop, Photographic Realism, and Light Effect Art came into being.

Leave the task of recording reality to photography.

Nowadays, the relationship between painting and photography is closer on the one hand, and further on the other. Personally, I think the relationship between photography and painting is like the relationship between machine and handwork, the relationship between material and spirit, and the relationship between bread and love, all of which depend on each other, nourish each other and help each other grow.