Photography

It is almost impossible these days not to include photography in a course on the history of arts,agent who suggests that technology and art didn't go well together, photography with its realism its accurate representation of the thing in front of you, initially deprived many artists of their subject matter forcing them to look in new ways no bad thing, true mass produced images saved the Monalisa obviously can't provide the same experience as seeing the real painting on the other hand there are photographs which to my mind a formal suit provoking and have great emotional impact than a painting of the same subject ever could, some people say that the traditional idea of an artist with a trained hand and eye is old fashioned, we no longer believe that an artist needs specialist knowledge but rather that he or she can simply point the camera at the scene and record it, however on the one hand that ignores the creative skill involved in producing photograph on the other hand it also ignores the fact that even in the past painters used in various technological aids, foe example the dutch painter Xenia used a camera obscure to help him create his images, we will go into that later but for now i want to look the documentary and cultural value of photography.