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What opened the curtain on modern photography?

Emerson was the first to foresee that photography would become an independent art, requiring photography to explore its own artistic language and gain the dignity of true art, thus freeing photography from the shackles of painting. As a pioneer in studying photographic aesthetics based on the characteristics of photography, his "documentary" perspective on photography opened the curtain on modern photography.