Reading | Question 1 of 14

What can be inferred from paragraphs 1 and 2 about the effect of photography on nineteenth-century painting?

  • Photography did not significantly change the way people looked at reality.
  • Most painters used the images of the camera obscura in preference to those of the daguerreotype.
  • Painters who were concerned with realistic or naturalistic representation were particularly influenced by photography.
  • Artists used the long-awaited invention of photography in just the ways they had expected to.
The Birth of Photography