Define these technologies as vehicles of Realism: journalism, photography, and lithography

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

When Realism arose in response to the subjective sentimentalism of the Romantic style, it was strengthened through the mediums of journalism, lithography, and photography.
As always, journalism has been much more than just a listing of facts. Writers and social critics used newspapers and journals to comment on the state of society and culture. For example, humorist, journalist, and social critic, Mark Twain offered his contemporaries a blend of entertainment and vivid insight into the dynamics of a unique time and place: the American South just prior to the Civil War. Journalism also offered a way for Realist artists to have knowledge of the world and its current events. Winslow Homer, an American Realist, paper-worked as a war correspondent early in his career, and his experiences informed his artwork.
Lithography—aprintmaking process created by drawing on a stone plate—was a cheap and popular means of providing illustrations for newspapers, magazines, and books. Combined with journalism, it helped to provide readers with a non-idealized version of the world. For example, the well-known lithographer Honoré Daumier criticized new technology, skeptical as to its ability to alter the human condition. He drew attention to characteristic human weaknesses, from the all too familiar complacency and greed of self-serving political figures to the pretensions of the nouveaux riche.
Photography, perhaps the most significant factor in Realism, offered authentic records of a specific moment vanished in time. Photographs served as social documents: the black-and-white images of poverty-stricken families and ramshackle tenements record with gritty Realism the notorious slums of nineteenth-century life.