PHOTOGRAPHY AND PAINTING
From right after the invention of photography until now, painters used photos, a subject about one rarely speaks...In the XIXth century painters and phtographers worked together.
Many photos were ordered by painters, like this football player (1870):
A number of models of the academies of arts posed for photographers, too....
who sold them to painters.
Take a look at this picture(1870)
Sometimes these photos were extremely bizar (1890)....
But, thanks to these photos, a great many wonderful works have been made by the following artists:
Delacroix
Degas
Toulouse-Lautrec
Breitner
Mucha
Klimt
Manet
Vargas
Aslan
Woodroffe
Achilleos
Sorayama
Chaplin
Whelan
Falguiere
et many, many others
Examples
Here are some examples:Let's start with Edgar Degas.
You'll see:
the work first and then the photo.
And then a work and a photo by Gustave Klimt:
And then a work and a photo by H.Breitner:
And then a work and a photo by C.Chaplin:
And then a work and a photo by Alphonse Mucha:
And then a work and a photo by Alberto Vargas:
And then a work and a photo by Sorayama:
And then a work and a photo by Picabia:
And then a work and a photo by Bill Nelson:
And then a work and a photo by Aslan:
And then a work and a photo by Alma-Tadema:
And then a work and a photo by Hans Christiansen:
And then a work and a photo by Pierre Bonnard:
And then a work and a photo by Carel Willink:
And then a work and a photo by Henri Fantin-Latour:
And then a work and a photo by George Petty:
And then a work and a photo by Edouard Manet:
Please pay attention to the face of which he possessed and the one of which he didn't possess a photo.
And then a work and a photo by Toulouse Lautrec:
And last but not least a work and a photo by the sculptor Falguiere:
