Does news photography or documentary photography count as art?

Count! Photography itself is a kind of graphic plastic arts. With the camera and photosensitive materials as tools, the theme is expressed by means of image composition, light, tone (or tone) and other modeling methods, and its artistic image is obtained. Photographers use cameras to reflect social life and natural phenomena and express their thoughts and feelings. According to the idea of artistic creation, using photography modeling skills, through the process of darkroom production, the photos have artistic appeal; Broadly speaking, it includes all artistic activities related to photography; In a narrow sense, it refers to the part of photography that can exist as an artistic variety, so photography is a plastic art.