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by derac 1355 days ago
https://daily.jstor.org/when-photography-was-not-art/

Research beats idle speculation.

Google "photography skeptics early history"

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From the article you linked:

> As long as “invention and feeling constitute essential qualities in a work of Art,” the writer argued, “Photography can never assume a higher rank than engraving.”

Ha, dissing engraving at the same time as photography.

Though I wonder if the 'write' meant engraving of a design someone else already produced, or any engraving work at all.