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What From its early inventing photography is being used as method for making documents as well as a media for producing art. These two where for a long time strictly separated and it’s until photography’s documentation power is being used within the discourse of fine art that photography itself is established a ‘real’ art form.

What are the changes for photography that where caused by the acts of the conceptual art movement?

How The conceptualist used photography in a way that it was never been used before, that is to say for an artistic practise, because from its invention photography is being as a tool for making documentations. But photography that specific characteristic of the medium was never used in an artistic way.

Why To get an understanding of the history of photography and its relation to the discourse of art.