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This is fairly common in early photographs. I think it is partially because many early photographers were painters originally and carried the insights of that p
by vanderZwan 6y ago
This is fairly common in early photographs. I think it is partially because many early photographers were painters originally and carried the insights of that practice over to the way they took photographs, and partially because paintings were the main frame of reference of medium to emulate.
- KineticLensman 6y agoI think the early history of photography is really interesting, in that artists and philosophers were arguing about it as long ago as the middle of the 19th century. To some it mechanised art in a good way and allowed 'mass production' - e.g. of portraits for people who couldn't afford an artist. To others this was of course a bad thing. Others liked the apparent objectivity of photography - 'the camera never lies'. I read Susan Sontag's On Photography many years ago and would love to see an updated version that takes account of our current image-saturated world.