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One of ways in which photography could carve out a niche for itself as an art was by making a virtue of the technical peculiarities of the medium. Early photography was not only monochrome, but easily tended to high contrasts. This could be exploited to create intense post-Romantic portraits.
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Montage was another technical possibility which immediately presented itself as a source of a new flexibility, especially in surface decoration.
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