Tracing the Line: Art and Photography in the Age of Contact

The author especially examines the contributions made by
Moholy-Nagy and Man Ray to the incorporation of the photographic
medium into art practice. As the author concluded: ""For (them)
and others, photography was a medium ripe for experiment and
discovery. These artists believed in the untapped pictorial
possibilities to be found in familiar materials.... Making
contact, providing a way to link thrilling accident of discovery
with the technical means of reproduction, photography was seen
as something other than an artistic medium in the usual sense.
In the hand of these artists, quality of line, that spontaneous
combination of emotional content and artistic presence, was
reclaimed for photography.''


Citaten:
Hambourg, M. Morris: The New Vision (1989)