The Impressionists And Photography

How Photography Served As Both Source And Foil For The Birth Of Impressionismfrom The First Announcement In 1839 Of The Daguerreotype Process At A Joint Meeting Of The French Academy Of Sciences And The Acadmie Des Beaux-arts, Photography Found Itself Suspended Uneasily Between Science And The Arts, A Technology That Offered Previously Unimaginable Possibilities For Pictorial Representation. While Photographys Capacity For Naturalistic Reproduction Threatened One Traditional Function Of Painting, The Cameras Artificial Eye Could Models For Looking At The World. In The Work Of Pioneering Photographers Such As Gustave Le Gray, Eugne Cuvelier, Nadar, Atget And Andr-adolphe-eugne Disdri, Impressionist Artists Such As Manet, Corot, Monet, Pissarro And Degas Found Ways Of Seeing.the Key Position That Photography Now Occupies In Contemporary Art Has Encouraged A Renewed Interest In Photographys Historical Relationship To The Other Visual Arts.