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An author discussing photography as fine art devotes a paragraph to photography's role as a factual document, noting that aesthetic manipulation can undermine an image's value as evidence.
What is the primary function of this discussion of photography's evidentiary role?
- To argue that digital manipulation has finally resolved the debate.
- To surface a tension created by the medium's dual standing as both objective record and crafted artwork.
- To explain the technical process of developing and printing in the nineteenth century.
- To provide evidence that early photographers were more skilled than painters.
- To prove that photography can never qualify as fine art.
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