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The earliest controversies about the relationship between photography and art centered on whether photo-graphy s fidelity to appearances and dependence on a machine allowed it to be a fine art as distinct from
(5) merely a practical art. Throughout the nineteenth century, the defense of photography was identical with the strug-gle to establish it as a fine art. Against the charge that photography was a soulless, mechanical copying of real-ity, photographers asserted that it was instead a privileged
(10)way of seeing, a revolt against commonplace vision, and no less worthy an art than painting. Ironically, now that photography is securely established as a fine art, many photographers find it pretentious or irrelevant to label it as such. Serious photographers vari-
(15)ously claim to be finding, recording, impartially observ-ing, witnessing events, exploring themselves