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In the 20th century, with the importance of image technology, diverse and incalculable connections arose between photography and painting. Photos – like accessories, inspiration sources and subjects – assumed their role in artists’ studios. The floor and walls of the studios of a vast range of artists were often covered with pictures and images cut out of magazines and newspapers. Eugène Delacroix studied the process of making daguerreotypes and used his own photographs as a basis for figures painted in the 1850s. Édouard Manet was inspired by pictures and press articles on the execution of …