Focusing on portraits and paintings from the nature and wilderness theme to look at,
I chose to compare an artist from the very beginning, Edward Steichen.
Edward was a painter/artist and had one painting that was very famous. It was called 'Moonlight' and sold for 2.9 million dollars.
The paintings in the past were much darker and more lifeless then paintings and photography found now. Throughout the years the techniques became more advanced and therefore allowed the pictures to become more full of life and eventful. Portraits were dull and still and landscapes were dark and mysterious.
Some similarities are that the artists are continually trying something new and more adventurous than other artists in their genre.
Photography used to be very limited to what the images were of, now there are all different mediums and images can be of endless themes.
A popular medium that was introduced was negative/positive photographic process. This was invented by William Henry Fox Talbot. Colours are important to bring an image to life, Talbot has done this simply by adding a tint of colour throughout the whole image.
