I’m not familiar with early photography, but I wonder if the 50 years was not how long it took for a stuffy establishment to admit a new upstart, but how long it took photographers to develop the medium into something worthy of the name of art.
I’m sure we’ll agree it’s a complex social process. Gemini says there are many examples of photographers that were dismissed as doing technical or even chemical experiments during the early period who are now revered as great artists. Gustave Le Gray used different negatives of sea and sky to create compositions with balanced exposure in the 1850s.
I’m not familiar with early photography, but I wonder if the 50 years was not how long it took for a stuffy establishment to admit a new upstart, but how long it took photographers to develop the medium into something worthy of the name of art.
I’m sure we’ll agree it’s a complex social process. Gemini says there are many examples of photographers that were dismissed as doing technical or even chemical experiments during the early period who are now revered as great artists. Gustave Le Gray used different negatives of sea and sky to create compositions with balanced exposure in the 1850s.
This is a very beautiful piece of art:
https://static.the-independent.com/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2016/02/19/01/5927595.jpg
Agreed on Gustave Le Gray! I had not known of him before.