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The reason that some early critics argued that photography could not compare with painting as a medium for artistic expression because they did not believe that the camera could convey the feelings and depths of the human soul.
Why was photography not accepted as an art form at first?
In today's time, photography is generally accepted as a fine art. But during the 19th century, photography was not merely a second-class citizen in the art world—it was an outcast.
Photography could not qualify as an art in its own right, because it lacked “something beyond mere mechanism at the bottom of it.” At best, the critics viewed photography as a relevant tool for painters to record scenes that they might later more skillfully render with their brushes.
However, landscape photographer John Moran, disagreed and fought back against this idea. He wrote in a March issue of The Philadelphia Photographer, “This refusal to rank Photography among the fine arts, is in a measure unfounded and its aim and end being one in common with art. It conveys the same language and addresses itself to the same sentiments".
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