Reading Response #1

             I was most interested when reading this introduction in how it explains the history of photography in technical terms but it also goes a little further and began to express the way in which the art form of photography also changed over time. It was interesting to read how Emerling described the evolution of photography. He did so in such a way that explained the technicalities but also left it up to the reader to interpret why it really evolved and changed over time. It seemed almost impossible for the art world of photography not to expand because as new deviations of art emerged photography had to capture that. It became more of capturing and image to mark a historical note in time and have it to look back at and more of a free way to capture art with less boundaries and more option of the artists manipulation. The more modern the culture of the art world was the more defined photography became an open way to show more than was seen in arts history.

While reading this introduction I was just wondering that when it said the discussion of photography stops after the art historical sense then why did it and how did it develop into the way it did? When did photography become less of a way to primarily learn and more to begin a conversation?