How Photography Became Contemporary Art Inside an Artistic Revolution from Pop to the Digital Age (Andy Grundberg)

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How Photography Became Contemporary Art: Inside an Artistic Revolution from Pop to the Digital Age Peter Hujar, Susan Sontag , 1975. CHAPTER 9 Theory Earlier much futile thought had been devoted to the question of whether photography is an art. The primary question — whether the very invention of photography had not transformed the entire nature of art — was not raised. —Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” 1936 For these artists and critics, art is not a tim…