I found this reading very interesting, especially after returning to the
passage after having an entire semester studying the history of photography.
When I first read these pages from Wells in the beginning of the semester, I
thought the information about the acceptance of photography as an art form in
the nineteenth century and the relationship between painting and photography
was a fascinating thought, but I did not fully understand the challenge
artist's such as the three I am studying for my paper, Stieglitz, Strand and
Lange faced when producing their work. I also did not fully grasp how
photographers mimicked painterly styles in order to have their work accepted as
an art form. Steve Edwards points out that in today’s world, we cannot
imagine life without photography. Later in the writing, Van Deren Coke
describes the advantages photography provided to painting, such as allowing the
painter to have photographic images to serve as notes rather than sketches. A
quote that I think directly relates to my thesis in my paper and explains the
relevance of photography in the art world is, “…the same object represented by
different photographers will produce different pictorial results and this
invariably not only because the one man uses different lenses and chemicals
than the other but because there is something different in each man’s mind
which somehow gets communicated to his fingers’ ends and thence to his
pictures.” (Harker 1988:46).
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