What influence did the appearance of photography have on modern painting?

Photography develops with the development of industry.

Personally, I think the formation process of photography concept is very similar to the development of industrial design history. They all copied the concept of plastic arts from the beginning to the gradual separation, and finally developed their own unique aesthetic consciousness and theory, and constantly interacted with plastic arts.

1, the influence of painting on photography: after the birth of western photography, in the early infancy of imitating painting, the scenery photographed by photographers is the same as that watched by painters. Because the complicated operation procedures are not much different from painting. This is the world's first photographic work "Scenery Outside the Window", which was shot by J.N.Niepce on 1826, and the content is about the outdoor scenery of his workplace.

Does it look fuzzy? Is that weird?

Because its exposure time is as long as 8 hours! The sun rises and sets in the west, the light changes too much, and the image formed by exposure on the asphalt metal plate in the pinhole camera has long been blurred.

1839, the invention of "silver plate photography-silver plate photography" shortened the exposure time to less than 30 minutes.

But the exposure time is still too long to draw a deeper sketch. Not only the exposure time is as long as painting, but also the production of wet version is very complicated and costly. 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. As a result, the following photos appeared: 1857 oscar gustave rejlander.

1858 henry peach robinson gradually disappears & gt =1860 henry peach robinson & lt early spring & gt =

1904 edward steichen & lt Moonlight in the Lotus Pond & gt= 1957 Birds in Langjingshan = 1962 Bamboo in Yan Zhendong =

From the photos above, it can be clearly seen that they imitate the traces of painting, and almost draw plane oil paintings and Chinese paintings ~

2. Photography has gradually found its proper way:

From 65438 to 0889, Eastman Kodak Company of the United States produced large-scale photographic films based on nitrocellulose films, which promoted the miniaturization of cameras. 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. After trying the indoor portraits and natural scenery of photo photography, photographers began to turn their attention to social life.

John thomson in john thomson was one of the first photographers to shoot and watch from the perspective of the general public. The camera in his hand has completely turned into a vagrant's eye, which is intimately integrated with everything around him. His series of photos of street life in London from 1876 to 1877 are still touching. 1876 john thomson & lt street advertising & gt↑ =

The truth of the slums in new york, which was photographed by Jacob A reece and Jacob A. A reece between 1887- 1892, showed the public the dark reality of capitalism. During this period, two photo albums, Life of the Abandoned by Society and Children in Slums, exposed the poor living on the edge of society behind the seemingly prosperous and luxurious new york wall, which caused the whole new york to shake, so that the governor at that time had to solve this problem himself, transform slums, open schools for extremely poor children and amend the child labor law accordingly.

1888 bandit lair =

1889 five-cent accommodation =1890 street Arabs =

In the 20th century, a number of such excellent photographers were born, such as robert capa of robert capa, W.Eugene Smith of Eugene Smith, dorothea Langer and so on. They turned the camera in their hands into a sharp weapon to criticize this real world full of bloody violence, persecution of rights and cross-flow of capital and material desires. 1936 the death of loyal soldiers in robert capa & gt =1975 W.Eugene Smith & lt Minamata & gt =1936 dorothea Lange & lt's migrating mother & gt =

Also, it must be mentioned that the birth of 199 1 Jie Hailong's "Project Hope" photography was prompted by the demand of art, but due to the characteristics of photography, it played a completely different role from traditional artistic thinking in the historical process. It will copy and spread frozen images on a large scale, or rely on printed media to spread and begin to participate in the process of social history. It broke away from the worship value of art and became a force interacting with the social movement process. The ethical value of photography has been highlighted historically, and photographers began to bear moral responsibility.

3. The influence of photography on painting:

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, PaulDelaroche 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. 1872 claude monet & lt Impression & gt Impressionism =1892 Henry Rousseau & lt Centenary of Independence & gt Post Impressionism =1908 henri matisse & lt Red Harmony & gt Fauvism =1937 Pablo Picasso & lt guernica & gt Cubism =

Andy Warhol & lt Mao Zedong & gt Pop Art Works =1970 V. Vasarelyop Art Works =

To give a few examples, it is not difficult to find that these works and styles appear in all aspects of our existing world.

Photography stimulates painting to find a new direction, and artists gradually find the difference between them. Photography is no longer an imitator of painting, and painting has gained a new life.

4. Today's painting and photography:

Nowadays, the relationship between painting and photography is closer on the one hand, and further on the other. Give examples respectively.

A, photography and painting are often difficult to distinguish because of the diversity of expression forms and themes: John Bader's oil painting portrait photography "The Retro Beauty of Sarachmet" painted in 2007.

B, painting and photography are also going further and further: 1950 by Jackson Pollock < one: number31> Action painting = 2065438+2002 Pulitzer Prize winner Masood Hussein's photo report on the suicide bombing in Kabul, documentary photography.

Something light. The following is a reinterpretation of classic paintings by photography:

& lt selfie, C.1889 > Original: Van Gogh, imitation: Seth Johnson <: Guide to People's Freedom & gt Original: Eugène Delacroix, Imitation: Fan Chon Bonne Fois ↑ < The Last Supper & gt Original: Da Vinci, Imitation: Michael Hunter =

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Back to the theme, in fact, I think the relationship between photography and painting, similar to the relationship between machine and handwork, the relationship between material and spirit, and the relationship between bread and love, all depend on each other, nourish each other and help each other grow.