What makes photography an art?

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Photography: art vs not art

The debate about photography being an art, though old, is still on. Honestly, I don't see why people object to the art of photography with ideas that from a technical point of view, a photograph on the wall or in an album is just a gelatinous surface containing dyes and on a computer screen it is just a series of digits (0 or 1) collected in a specific way to create a visual image.
What makes photography an art then?

Creativity

Photography is not just about grabbing a camera and doing shots. It is true that anybody do that. However, not all of the pictures can be considered as an object of art. In fact, photography as any art goes through a creative process and this is what makes it an art. Art photographs are just full of inspiration and creativity: photography generates new association between the mind and existing objects that is it bring a common object into a new light. It also requires knowledge of cameras and the use of photographic lenses. When you look at great art photographs they just "speak" to you as the scene or the object on it "spoke" to the photographer who took it. So, yes photography is truly an art.