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I regard photography as the successor of the Romantic period in painting. I think that I can easily compare it to that. Photography is limited due to reality. Even if someone creates a photomontage or a collage and uses all effects, the viewer still recognizes the actuality. Compared to decorative painting, the Gothic period, and the late Renaissance, photography has evolved only slightly. It is still the reproduction of realism. From what we know to this day, it should evolve to impressionism, cubism, expressionism, etc. up to postmodernism and beyond. However, it’s a fact that this is impossible with photography. As a result, we have to take the help of other forms of display. And we have already done that with the very help of painting.
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Quoting Pablo Picasso: „When you see what is expressed through photography, then you notice how much can no longer be the task of painters. Why should an artist continue to explore themes that the camera lens can capture so much more clearly? That would be absurd, wouldn’t it? Photography has reached a point so that it frees painting from all literary and anecdotic ideas, even from the theme itself. Anyway, a particular view of the thematic now belongs to the area of photography. Shouldn't painters now profit from their newly acquired freedom, and use it to do something else?"
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