Sunday Morning Truck Stop

Part of this class is actual work rather than just creation and exploration.  We are reading Charlotte Cotton's "The Photograph as Contemporary Art", this time the introduction.  I was expecting some boring background about why the book was written, instead my eyes were opened more the the medium of photography.  Obviously there was sections about each chapter's purpose, however there was more focus on background of photography.  There were two points in the intro that really caught me, the first quote was from page 7, "Throughout the history of photography there have always been promoters of the medium".  It was intriguing to me that Cotton used the word promoter to describe photography, because in the past photography was often used to promote art.  Just as the introduction explains photography is still coming up in the world as an high art form in the gallery world.  Cotton states "This introduction also acknowledges the decision to minimize the space given to the work of earlier photographers who helped establish photography as an art form.".  The rest of the introduction gave a brief background of photography with a good understanding that the focus of the book is on photography now and the medium's movement towards the future of art.