The Effects of Invention of Photography on Illustration

Abstract

It is an undeniable element that technological developments bring about a rapid and dynamic change in all areas and the necessity of compulsory development. As in all kinds of art, technology has led to radical changes and innovations in plastic arts and has brought diversity and difference to art production techniques too.The birth of photographic technology has provided an invaluable opportunity to capture and document the moment. Many visual documents and visual evidence, which were previously made in cooperation with painters and printmakers, have now become available as subjective, without the need for mediation of these craftsmen. This visual revolution in photography has profoundly influenced many methods of visual art production, and the production of photographic images without photographs has now required the production of photographic technology. As it was the moment, and without any commentary by any illustrator, it directly replaced the traditional illustration production techniques and illustrative drawings in terms of photography, credibility, and reliability as the highest visual material, leading to a decrease in the demands on illustrators. The illustration, which is an indispensable communication and graphic material in terms of supporting the text, strengthening the expression and visualizing the subject, has become a kind of unfashionable art which has been disrupted in the early stages of the spread of photography.In this study, it has been examined that the negative effects of the photography's invention in its early period to on illustration art and it has been researched that illustration having its glory again by starting commonly apply collaborations of photography and illustration.