Technology has revolutionized the visual arts. For thousands of years, one of the central goals of art was to imitate nature as exactly as possible. Today, any one of us can point a camera at a person or an object and capture a realistic image. But how did we get to this point and how does it relate to fine art? We will see how the camera and the computer revolutionized the art world.
Read all of Ch.8 Imaging: Photography, Film, and Digital Arts (eText) in the eTextbook, paying special attention to the topics mentioned in the Module Introduction.