Uploaded May 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
tackling the history of art through the lens of the dark room, and why "modern art" paintings you could've made, are so expensive?
to buy Reflections (2018) by Coffee Break, go here: bit.ly/2KVR8YY
*serious offers only*
PLEASE NOTE:
This is one view of the art world and the camera's impact on it.
As with most things, a simple view of cause(camera)-effect(fracturing of art/loss of trad value) is great for seeing the big picture, but it of course lacks nuance. So, I wanted to say here: the reason that art has changed throughout history cannot be snapped into a single narrative in 5 min, it's contains many different factors, *one of the larger ones* being photography.
And photography's effect on art also cannot be summed as "good" or "bad", it just changed things, some things positively, some negatively.
For example...Photography has actually helped many artists do their realism work more accurately. There are thousands of moments, which you, a modern human, can now freeze with a camera, such as a crashing wave, or a sprinting horse and use for art.
Without photos, it's really tough to recreate moments like that in your mind, but now artists can just look at a photo to find beauty in frozen moments that only last for fractions of time.
No matter how you look at it though, the art world was forever changed by the camera and all the implications that cheap photos would produce.
Follow:
Twitter: twitter.com/coffeebreak_YT
Facebook: facebook.com/CoffeeBreak42
Patreon: patreon.com/Coffee_Break
Music:
Joey Pecoraro - The Urge
soundcloud.com/joeypecoraro/the-urge
Mecca:83 - Psalm 64
soundcloud.com/solar-sound-system/rise-psalm64
Mecca:83 - Prayer for Love
soundcloud.com/solar-sound-system/rise-prayer-for-love
Shownotes:
Banksy Street Art
thedailybeast.com/banksys-biggest-trick-yet-selling-his-art-on-the-street-for-dollar60
Hierarchy of Genres
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchy_of_genres
Difficulty curve of the hierarchy of genres
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_pictura
"Alberti argued that multi-figure history painting was the noblest form of art, as being the most difficult, which required mastery of all the others"
How Photography Changed Painting
bigthink.com/Picture-This/how-photography-changed-painting-and-vice-versa
Initial impacts of photography
artinsociety.com/pt-1-initial-impacts.html
More thoughts on photography and painting
https://siarchives.si.edu/blog/photography-murdered-painting-right
Early Photography
khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/beginners-guide-20-21/a/an-introduction-to-photography-in-the-early-20th-century
tackling the history of art through the lens of the dark room, and why "modern art" paintings you could've made, are so expensive?
to buy Reflections (2018) by Coffee Break, go here: bit.ly/2KVR8YY
*serious offers only*
PLEASE NOTE:
This is one view of the art world and the camera's impact on it.
As with most things, a simple view of cause(camera)-effect(fracturing of art/loss of trad value) is great for seeing the big picture, but it of course lacks nuance. So, I wanted to say here: the reason that art has changed throughout history cannot be snapped into a single narrative in 5 min, it's contains many different factors, *one of the larger ones* being photography.
And photography's effect on art also cannot be summed as "good" or "bad", it just changed things, some things positively, some negatively.
For example...Photography has actually helped many artists do their realism work more accurately. There are thousands of moments, which you, a modern human, can now freeze with a camera, such as a crashing wave, or a sprinting horse and use for art.
Without photos, it's really tough to recreate moments like that in your mind, but now artists can just look at a photo to find beauty in frozen moments that only last for fractions of time.
No matter how you look at it though, the art world was forever changed by the camera and all the implications that cheap photos would produce.
Follow:
Twitter: twitter.com/coffeebreak_YT
Facebook: facebook.com/CoffeeBreak42
Patreon: patreon.com/Coffee_Break
Music:
Joey Pecoraro - The Urge
soundcloud.com/joeypecoraro/the-urge
Mecca:83 - Psalm 64
soundcloud.com/solar-sound-system/rise-psalm64
Mecca:83 - Prayer for Love
soundcloud.com/solar-sound-system/rise-prayer-for-love
Shownotes:
Banksy Street Art
thedailybeast.com/banksys-biggest-trick-yet-selling-his-art-on-the-street-for-dollar60
Hierarchy of Genres
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchy_of_genres
Difficulty curve of the hierarchy of genres
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_pictura
"Alberti argued that multi-figure history painting was the noblest form of art, as being the most difficult, which required mastery of all the others"
How Photography Changed Painting
bigthink.com/Picture-This/how-photography-changed-painting-and-vice-versa
Initial impacts of photography
artinsociety.com/pt-1-initial-impacts.html
More thoughts on photography and painting
https://siarchives.si.edu/blog/photography-murdered-painting-right
Early Photography
khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/beginners-guide-20-21/a/an-introduction-to-photography-in-the-early-20th-century
