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> fixed toothless non-smiles The painted smile was an unconvincing thing (with the exception of some of Franz Hal's paintings). It was photography which (event
by Daub 4y ago
> fixed toothless non-smiles
The painted smile was an unconvincing thing (with the exception of some of Franz Hal's paintings). It was photography which (eventually) showed us what they really looked like.
- ggm 4y agoI really like how one of the impressionists said, with the birth of photography the art of portraiture is dead. It wasn't true: Firstly, Julia Margaret Cameron turned basic representational photographs into stunning works of art, managing tone and light and pose. Secondly, Art adapted, to use photography to capture the image for refinement in the studio, and also re-validated high end art as the product of human labour. Rich people queued up in droves to have their portraits painted, it was in many ways middle class and poor people who flocked to cartes de visite, daguerrotypes and tintype and other forms of photography to capture their lives and personal history.