# Artist and Photography > “From the turn of the century, however, painters started to revolt against the supremacy of photography and artists such as Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Georges Braque, and André Breton proclaimed in a similar manner to Bacon the necessity for change but also the positive effect, the relief brought by the camera. > Kirchner claimed that ‘today photography takes over exact representation [so that] painting, relieved from this task, gains its former freedom of action’52 while Picasso declared that ‘photography has arrived at a point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from the subject. [...] So shouldn’t painters profit from their newly acquired liberty ... to do other things?’ > > These ‘other things’ came in a variety of shapes and forms; all tendencies towards abstraction, for example, can be interpreted as at least partly motivated by the competition with the camera.” [@gunther_francis_2022, 18] - ![[@coke_painter_1986#^4aa0a6]] - ![[@brassai_picasso_1966#^8128ad]] - [[@coke_painter_1986]] ## References