HISTART 180C Chapter Varnedoe: Reading Notes
12 Oct 2016
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The artifice of candor: impressionism and photography reconsidered. The idea that the impressionists owed their fresh outtake on modernity, technology, and painting to photography is inaccurate and misleading : evidence of photographs on paintings in the 1870s, development of the impressionist photographic vision . No photos from the late 19th c. can be seen as directly related to an impressionist painting no photographer was bold or unconventional enough to seek out the viewpoints and subject matter the impressionists did! Dichotomy of aspirations between the photographers and the impressionists: the photographer sought better control over their medium whilst the. Impressionists tried to harness spontaneity: photographer aspired to recognition in the professional world whilst. Impressionism"s goal was to push boundaries with risk.
