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A brief contribution to set out some points about Digital Art in photography.
Jean-Paul Margnac
Visual Artist Photographer
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In the earliest time of photography, e.g. around 1880, painting and photography were rivals and
sometimes accomplices. At that...
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A brief contribution to set out some points about Digital Art in photography.
Jean-Paul Margnac
Visual Artist Photographer
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In the earliest time of photography, e.g. around 1880, painting and photography were rivals and
sometimes accomplices. At that time, for most critics, the obsessive question :
“ Is photography an Art ?” was not easy to decide.
For instance, a painter like Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894), produced scenes directly inspired from a
photographic point of view. The invention of large angle lenses since 1860, had shown new
perspectives which were largely used by Caillebotte in his compositions.
At the same time, a photographer as Le Gray (1820-1884) expresses his intend to make art with his
photographs "I send forth the hope that photography ... enters the world of art. "
But, as we know, the next generations of painters have turned back the imitation of reality and
deconstructed firmly all reference to photographic image.
In the twentieth century, for many decade
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