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Is photography art? That is a question that has been debated for many years. One definition of a work of art is that it is a formalized expression of experience as seen through a personality. If that is the case, then a well-executed photograph can certainly be a work of art. Although a photographer does not have as much freedom to interpret as a painter does, a photograph can certainly interpret a scene. Two photographers can record the same scene in totally different ways.
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Rossing, T.D., Chiaverina, C.J. (1999). Photography. In: Light Science. Undergraduate Texts in Contemporary Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21698-0_10
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