Is Photography Art, part II/II

How photographers figured it out

In the first part of this series, we’ve walked through the inception of photography. At the time, it was understood just as a mechanical invention that has nothing to do with Art. Some people wanted to elevate it to the status of a painting by mimicking the looks and techniques of contemporary painters, but to no avail. It wasn’t until the end of WWI that a new generation of photographers, unrestrained by the prejudices of their fathers and grandfathers, took cameras into their hands and established photography as Art we…