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2. Photographic or retinal acuity
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Close-ups, accelerated perspectives and cropped shots were all flaws in photography that painters picked up on their canvases.
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With the invention of the instant photograph, Eadweard Muybridge and Étienne-Jules Marey decomposed animal movement.
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The artistic world was in turmoil, especially Edgar Degas, Georges Seurat and Auguste Rodin.
Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet
The Impressionists - painters of fleeting impressions captured on the spot - were no strangers to photography.
4. The Impressionists and photography
Readings Aaron Scharf, Art and Photography, The Pingouin Press, 1968 Joël Petitjean, Gustave Courbet et la photographie, Fage éd., 2012 The Artist and The Camera : Degas to Picasso, Catalogue de exposition, Dallas Museum of Art, 2000
Iconographic study
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