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Technology · 1839 · Turning point

Photography Invented

187
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Works dated 1836–1842

Freed painters from documentary obligation overnight, directly precipitating Impressionism's radical turn toward subjective perception, light, and feeling over faithful representation.

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Photography Invented (1839) · Ellsworth