Portrait of Kramskoi by Ilya Repin

  • dasenboy@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    Amazing realism… I wonder if these paintings were made before the invention of photography.

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      10 months ago

      👉 1872

      therefore, no.

      I had to get out, walk to a library and check the books in the photography section to respond to your question. If only information was more easily accessible to anybody anywhere …