TY - BOOK AU - Fried,Michael TI - Why photography matters as art as never before SN - 9780300136845 (hbk.) : U1 - 770.1 22 PY - 2008///. CY - New Haven, Conn. PB - Yale University Press KW - Photography, Artistic KW - Photography KW - Philosophy N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - From the late 1970s onward, serious art photography began to be made at large scale and for the wall. Michael Fried argues that this immediately compelled photographers to grapple with issues centering on the relationship between the photograph and the viewer standing before it that until then had been the province only of painting. Not all will agree with Fried's argument however, nor with his choice of art photographs, some of which are very ordinary-looking ER -