Photography as an Artform: During photography’s early years, many people thought that it was not an artform because the camera merely recorded whatever was placed before it. Thus, most people regarded a photo such as Five Cents a Spot by Jacob Riis as a historical record rather than as art. Other photographers such as Julia Cameron and Alfred Stieglitz argued that photography was an artform, and their photos look much different from the work of Riis. Compare the work of Cameron and Stieglitz with that of Riis. Could you make a case that Riis’s work is in fact not art? Or is it art?