FOTOGRAFÍA E IMPRESIONISMO: de Nadar a Manet y Toulouse-Lautrec

Abstract

We begin a retrospective review of the last quarter of the XIX Century to isolate the first aesthetic contamination produced between impressionists and Photographers, in consideration of recognition of the artistic content of photography. From then on, it will be shown, the photographer, on the one hand and the impressionists on the other, debated the same necessity of searching for a re-interpretation of previous plastic art conventions. For this perspective we have followed the work of three artists: Nadar, Manet and Toulouse Lautrec. They arrived at a new form of looking at the canvas which was a forerunner of what was to follow at the turn of the century. These changes would affect the perception as viewed by the onlooker...