Photography- art or science?

Mechanical Photography: Photos that are representations of facts or informations.

Creative Photograpyh: All other types of photography; landscape, portrait, etc.

I believe photography can be both mechanical and creative, it depends on who’s taking the photos, and why. I believe there’s a lot more creative photography now then there was in previous centuries.

From 1902, New York gallery owner, and Alfred Stieglitz stated that photography should become it’s own unique medium.

Photography as Genre:

“Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. I has to walk alone; it has to be itself” -Berenice Abbott

Abbott is making a plea for photography to be regarded as an art form in its own right, rather than an adjunct to other genres like painting.