<P> One photography historian claimed that `` the earliest exponent of ' Fine Art ' or composition photography was John Edwin Mayall , `` who exhibited daguerrotypes illustrating the Lord 's Prayer in 1851 '' . Successful attempts to make fine art photography can be traced to Victorian era practitioners such as Julia Margaret Cameron , Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , and Oscar Gustave Rejlander and others . In the U.S. F. Holland Day , Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen were instrumental in making photography a fine art , and Stieglitz was especially notable in introducing it into museum collections . </P>
<P> One photography historian claimed that `` the earliest exponent of ' Fine Art ' or composition photography was John Edwin Mayall , `` who exhibited daguerrotypes illustrating the Lord 's Prayer in 1851 '' . Successful attempts to make fine art photography can be traced to Victorian era practitioners such as Julia Margaret Cameron , Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , and Oscar Gustave Rejlander and others . In the U.S. F. Holland Day , Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen were instrumental in making photography a fine art , and Stieglitz was especially notable in introducing it into museum collections . </P>
when did it become common for photographs to be collected in major fine art museums
when did it become common for photographs to be collected in major fine art museums
Victorian era
Victorian era