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Abadzic, Stanko

Abbey, Edward

Abbott, Berenice

Abell, Sam

Ackerman, Diane

Acosta, Blanca

Acuna, David

Adams, Ansel

Adams, Claude

Adams, Eddie

Adams, Edsel

Adams, Gilbert

Adams, Jeff

Adams, Peter

Adams, Robert

Adams, Scott

Adams, Jim

Adatto, Kiku

Agee, James Rufus

Agou, Christophe

Aldighieri, April

Allard, William Albert

Allen, Timothy

Aluko, Omolara

Andersen, Thomas Folke

Anderson, Margaret C.

Anne, Princess

Anonymous

Appelt, Dieter

Arbus, Amy

Arbus, Diane

Archibald, Timothy

Arino, Eimu

Aristotle

Arnheim, Rudolf

Arnold, Eve

Aronovich, Ignacio

Arp, Hans

Arthus-bertrand, Yann

Asif, Usman B.

Atget, Eugene

Atkinson, Brooks

Attar, Abbas

Atticks, Joshua

Auden, Wystan Hugh

Auletta, Ken

Auletta, Ralph

Ausloos, Paul

Avedon, Richard

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Museums of photography are still rare in the world, though their number has increased in the last ten years. But what do these museums of photography show ? Not only the photograph itself, but more especially its technical evolution and that of the instruments with which it was taken – the photographic instruments. Who would think of exhibiting at the same level the painter’s brush, paints and oils with the product of these utensils ? Nor we are shown the object and the instrument of production in the applied arts. This is however what happens for photography in most instances. The instrument takes on considerable importance and the photograph is still considered much more as the result of a technique and the camera than as the product of mind, thought and vision. It is here forgotten that photography is above all the bearer of a message, a new language and mode of expression for man. - Anna Fárová - curator in the photographic department of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague. [cited in: “Creative Camera International Year Book 1976”, Coo Press, London, 1975, p. 163]