Photograph of lady posing in semi profile

In 1842 the photograph industry arrived in Peru. French photographers and from other nationalities arrived into Peruvian territory and implemented photographic studies that recorded the epoch. Due to its results and costs, photography came into conflict and competition with painting, an artistic genre that had long enjoyed the monopoly of portraiture. This new technology allowed a more faithful reproduction of reality, an aspect in which painting could be questioned. Although, it must be said that not everything was a rivalry, since between one genre and another there were exchanges: photography allowed painters to have a static image of what they sought to reproduce; while photography initially available only in black and white, over time adopted shades of color thanks to the intervention of paint.