I very much enjoyed this chapter because of how it didn't just tell the reader the history but rather explained older views, theories and points of view of the new art style at the time and compared that to the more modern views of photography today. I think it was extremely important that at the beginning the question of what is photography is posed and through essentially the entire chapter they attempt to answer that. personally I enjoyed how the chapter showed the progression of photography so well. There was a smooth flow from is photography just a replication to the narratives that are potentially behind all photographs to the movement of postmodernism. How Emerling delivered the information alongside with the multiple artist theories and ideas, it made me as a reader think more about how there was such a large shift in photography more than just knowing when it all happened.
Is the view of Susan Sontag, about photography not being art but merely a medium, a popular one? Emerling mentions many views on if photography is art for both answers but not another in alike to Sontag.
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