Impressionism and Photography

摘要

This paper aims to show that vernacular photography contributed subtly to changing the manner in which Impressionist painters depicted landscape and the human figure.This new way of approaching reality can be discerned only for a very brief period in Impressionism,between 1865 and 1880,although signs of the impact of photography on painting are already to be seen in Daguerreotypes of the 1840s.The influence of photography becomes most striking after 1859,with the production of stereoscopic views of human figures on the boulevards and elsewhere.Painters never explicitly acknowledged these influences,however,and it may be that these influences were assimilated unconsciously in part.