Photography and Modernism

George Braque, Woman with a Guitar, 1913

I think that it's wonderful how photography inspired the art movement of Cubism. Photography allowed artists to see everyday objects in an entirely different light, so it was really only a matter of time until photography seeped into the lives of artists, and, in particular, the painters of the twentieth century. For the movement of Cubsim, photography allowed artists to see ordinary things from severe\al different angles, thus artists began to portray these depictions of different viewing in their painings (such as the Braque painting displayed above). It's interesting how photography inspired painting in the early 1900's when just in the late 1800's painting inspired photography during the movement of pictorialism.