With AI systems like DALL-E and Midjourney effortlessly churning out photo-realistic images, it may seem like photography is destined to be replaced. But experts argue this isn't the case; quite the opposite, actually.
Old Dutch Painters Offer Hopeargues that if anything, portrait painting actually experienced a resurgence at a time when it seemed like the invention of the camera could decimate the art form.
However, despite the fears around the new technology, Rooseboom found only one report of an artist being displaced as photography caught on: an 1874 reference to a recently deceased portrait painter who had ended up on “the edge of poverty” thanks to “his marriage, blessed with a pack of children, and secondly photography.”
In 1846, painter Jan Adam Kruseman said that “after a long period of languishing” art “had awakened with renewed life and again made great advances.” He did mention some forces pushing in the other direction, including public tastes, art criticism, and fashion—but not photography. Some artists did describe a lack of work. However, Rooseboom easily found similar complaints going back to the time before photography.
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