![]() ![]() In the course of the 1980’s photography secured its place as a part of the arts in Finland too. Unfortunately in Finnish only: Valokuva – Muisto, viesti taide, Musta Taide, 2010 Valokuva tradition ja toden välissä, Musta Taide, 1996 ja Valokuva, pakenevan todellisuuden kuvajainen, Kirjayhtymä, 1980). Photography was important media, especially for the newspapers, but even in the 1970’s you may find articles where the question was posed: Is photography really art? (If interested in the history oif photography in Finland, I warmly recommend reading the works by researcher Leena Saraste. ![]() Photography was seen as a form of art fairly soon in France, UK and United States, but in Finland the path was slower. Fairly quickly was understood that there was some artistic vision actually needed to produce the pictures taken by the machine. In the beginning photography was considered as a useful tool for science and research.Īs the time passed, the world of art opened also for photography. The result, as was thought back then, didn’t mirror the skill of the person using the instrument but the instrument itself, which was able to record an image of the world so perfectly. The role of a technical instrument in art was considered at first questionable. it wasn’t considered as a form of art in the first place. Daguerre presented it for the Academy in France). Truth is that when photography was born around 1839 (the invention was made earlier but it came to known for the larger public when Mr. Sometimes in the art world and amongst the collectors you hear people wondering about value of a photographic work in comparison to other art forms.
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