Graschenkova, N. V. Thoughts on Documentary and Artistic Beginnings in Photography

Abstract: From the mid XIX’s onwards European society has undergone significant social and cultural changes which, in their turn, significantly changed the modern human’s views on art. The author of the article studies the nature of a photographic image as a special way of perceiving the world around. The author analyzes different approaches to the phenomenon of photography. On the one hand, photography is a new attitude to the reality formed through human’s subjective judgments, and on the other, it is an opportunity to adjust and survive, to obtain and keep knowledge about the world. By performing different functions, photography has an opportunity to combine achievements in the spheres of both art and science and be an object or a subject depending on goals of photography.

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