After the invention of the camera and the growth in popularity of photography, it is only natural that mass production as well as dissemination of photo prints will follow.
Becasue of photography, personal as well as public history, time, and the perception of man himself has notably changed. The idea of privacy became altered as more and more well known public figures and that of the common man were recorded.
Photographs became the unchallenged proof of any experience, event, and even a state of being.
Photography as an art
Certifying photography as an art form was a hard thing to undertake during its early stages. It was challenged by artists as well as critics and focused on both the chemical and mechanical facets of photography. They considered photography as a craft and nothing more.
Taking away the restrictions
When musuems and art schools finally opened up themselves to photography, the resulting trend was carried up to the present.
Photographers began to set themselves free from the strict impositions made by the norms of the straight aesthetic mode as well as the documentary modes as forms of expressing their...