Return to the viewing means going back to the starting point of photography as an art.

回到观看，就是返回到摄影之为艺术的起点。

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After photography became regarded as an art form, portrait painting became less prestigious, less respected as an art form.

在摄影被视为一种艺术形式之后，肖像画作为一种艺术形式就不那么有声望和受人尊敬了。

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March was quite active as an art photographer, and participated in at least two photography exhibitions.

马奇作为一个艺术摄影家是相当积极的， 至少参与了两个摄影展览。

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He was an evangel for photography, insisting that it be recognized as an art, and so he crowed that "The Metropolitan Museum has opened its sacred halls to Photography" when the museum accepted his gift of 22 photographs in 1928.

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Having grown up when photography was just being recognized as an art form, the French-born Cartier-Bresson was perhaps being an aesthetic contrarian, the anti-Stieglitz and un-Steichen, resisting the soft-focus tradition of those photographers that often conferred a romantic mist on their subjects.

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The Getty is betting that in the years since then, commercial photography has become firmly enough established as an art form that such arguments won't carry the same power.

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