SG Pratt’s Reviews > The History of Photography: From 1839 to the Present > Status Update

200 pages in and just now read the first bit of information i’ve found at all interesting—the fact that abstract art/cubism were born at the same time as pictorial photography. Painters became less interested in realism because of photography’s ability to capture real life. so they started making random shit. pretty cool.

so dense so boring. assigned reading from my grad school prof. fuck william henry fox talbot IDGAF