Photography, once popular as a substitute for portrait painting, has paid a heavy price for it. Technological innovation and theoretical progress have failed to make it quickly step into the threshold of art. For a long time after the invention, its main function has been to record, not to elaborate and express. However, today, it has been everywhere, it can be said that it has been involved in our life, that long-standing proposition is no longer concerned, it has even protested with the once wanted to attach to the art chamber. Today, the development of photography can't prevent it from expanding to a wider field. Just like countless photography works, the time and energy left for shooting is only a small part, and more time is given to the complex conception and decoration in the early stage, the complex correction and perfection in the later stage. It has changed from simple record to expression. There are still many practitioners who continue to practice Bresson's “decisive moment” capture and convey to us, as observers and recorders, the stories of every moment in every corner of the world. However, no matter how it changes, the masterpieces of early photographers, such as Eugene Ajie, are still popular today.

Liu Gaolu. On the Practical Significance of Photography from Eugene Ajie's Paris Series. Frontiers in Art Research (2020) Vol. 2 Issue 4: 9-10. https://doi.org/10.25236/FAR.2020.020403.

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