Whitney Benefactor Saw Photography's Value

This Whitney Benefactor Saw Photography's Value - WSJ.com: "When Sondra Gilman bought three photographs by Eugène Atget for $750 in the 1980s, her family was flabbergasted. And when she suggested, repeatedly, to the Whitney Museum of American Art that they should collect photography, they told her it "isn't an art." Until 1990, that is, when the museum asked for her help in establishing a photography department."

Photography's art history laid bare in UK show | Reuters: "Photography's artistic roots are laid bare in a new show which brings historical paintings, early photographs and contemporary pictures together in a new show at Britain's National Gallery."

Photography: is it art? | Art and design | The Guardian: "But over the past few decades the question has been heard with ever decreasing frequency. When Andreas Gursky's photograph of a grey river Rhine under an equally colourless sky sold for a world record price of £2.7 million last year, the debate was effectively over. As if to give its own patrician signal of approval, the National Gallery is now holding its first major exhibition of photography, Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present."

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