#photography #art https://daily.jstor.org/when-photography-was-not-art/ > Today, photography is commonly accepted as a fine art. But through much of the 19th century, photography was not merely a second class citizen in the art world—it was an outcast. > They saw photography merely as a thoughtless mechanism for replication, one that lacked, “that refined feeling and sentiment which animate the productions of a man of genius east:: [[Photography is the art of seeing]]