7 Artistic Merit in Photography
In our time it seems entirely appropriate that the widest choice be open to artists. Those using the camera or other photographic means to produce works of artistic merit should seek to exploit their medium in the most adventurous ways…. The derogatory use of the term artifice is more often than not a bugaboo. Art is artifice. Its reality is of another nature than that of the purely physical world.
—Aaron Scharf
In 1859, not long after the invention of photography, French poet and critic Charles Baudelaire penned a scathing critique of the medium and its (lack of) artistic merit. According to Baudelaire, “This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art’s most mortal enemy.” ...
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