Painting vs. Photography

The introduction of photography changed the way people understand painting in many ways. Photography is the process of producing images of objects or people by chemical action of light. It captures the moment of what once was right then and there.

Photography is most realistic form of art. In John Berger’s “Way of Seeing” he mentions how photography isn’t idealized like paintings. The portrayal of a nude woman is unrealistic in many paintings. For example, woman couldn’t take these nude paintings serious because their body parts were immensely exaggerated and unreal. Unlike in photographs, the picture has potential in which women can actually relate their image to.

 Paintings have a huge impact on photography. Berger demonstrates how we use the same gestures, postures, settings, and even signs of love as most oil paintings. Nowadays, in the high fashion industry, models are constantly portraying and imitating the poses of the people in these painting. Besides copying their gestures, they use the same objects and take place in similar settings. Paintings play a major role on the importance of photography because photographers are influenced to include details of the painting in their work.

Photography has changed the way people understand painting in many ways. If you think about it, it allows people to become to the painting itself. Photographs keep us up to date with what’s going on all around the world. Nowadays, we see them everywhere, on the stores, magazines, newspapers, and subways. Photography has become apart of our daily life.

Leonardo Da Vinci

“Mona Lisa”

Oil painting

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