Photography, art and modernity response

In the beginning of Nesbit’s article, it discussed the struggle that photography had being accepted as a legitimate form of art. It talked about the rise of modernism and a group of artists that identified themselves as the Avant Gaurde. I thought it was interesting to see the competition painters/sculptors had with this new form of image making. However as I kept reading I noticed a pattern, just like with anything new it might seem strange, but then you get curious and after you break the boundary of coming into contact with it you like it, a lot. It is unlike anything you’ve ever experienced before so then it becomes a fad that gets exhausted, by primarily the painters. Once the painters lose interest the sporadic evolution of photography slows down almost immediately in the 1930s with the surrealists. 

After noticing this pattern I was more drawn to the advertising section of this article. I enjoyed the distortions of truth with the image figuratively and literally. The alteration to images is still used today with all sorts of media. Even though you know that images can be altered in this way people still believe in it as the truth. I think it is this way because of this explosion of photography that happened in such a small amount of time (in relation to painting/sculpture) the public had no choice but to embrace it. Except the only drawback to this was that they were accustomed to photography being a truthful document as their first impression. I suppose that idea just never got modernized like photography did.