I understand Norman Rockwell shot all his pictures on film then made the paintings from the photos. A lot of painters try for the photorealistic look even today.
There has been an immense amount of photographic influence in art.
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Rob Studdert wrote:
On 26 Dec 2003 at 8:23, Herb Chong wrote:
photography changed how painters paint.
Yep since the advent of photography painting has been more biased towards pure art not event recording as it 99.9% of photography in the hands of the general public as digital or film media.
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