Janet is working on a presentation that focuses on a specific period in the history of photography when documentary and photojournalistic photography were in vogue, with important photographic essays appearing in Life magazine and elsewhere and artists and mass media outlets beginning to use color on a regular basis. What historical period of photography is Janet doing her presentation on? A. Modern Photography 1900-1945 B. Digital Photography 2000-present C. Early Photography 1839-1900 D. Contemporary Photography 1945-2000

photography had emerged as an elite art pursued by a few creative individuals for a few wealthy patrons. but now, said bauldelaire, it was succumbing to "the great industrial madness of our times." it was becoming a mass production industry that catered to middle-class tastes, including a taste for gadgetry. the stereoscope, the first 3d imaging system, had turned looking at photographs into parlor entertainment. a "thousand hungry eyes were bending over the peepholes of the stereoscope as though they were the attic-windows of the infinite.