Photography - Art or Science?

Almost since the moment of its birth, photography began rising debates in areas of art and science. The photographic image reserved the art form of painting, which began artists refusing to accept photography as an art form, and only as a scientific process and method of a visual form. Which launched a group of French artists, in the early 1860’s, protesting that photography was only a mechanical process, never resulting in art pieces that could be compared with works of physical, and imaginable intelligence of  art. Furthermore, the invention of the photography caused considerable concern to many painters, who saw their means of creativeness coming to an end; others even claimed that painting was dead (not true). Thus many artists turned to photography, moving with the times of technology, while others only used photography as an artistic aid to their paintings. Concluding that photography is both an art, and a science that allows us to express our feeling and emotions. However to achieve this; we need to master the scientific part of the medium. Unlike a painter, who is in direct with their subject and canvas, a photographer is separated by the camera and from his "canvas" by computers and printers and by darkroom equipment previously.


Reading:
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/columns/Reflections-Introduction.shtml
http://www.iosart.com/photography-art-or-science/
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/columns/Art-Science.shtml
http://www.arthistory.sbc.edu/artartists/photography.html