ABSTRACT
T he photographic image itself relies upon two essential ingredients: the camera’sprojection of an image and the subsequent chemical development of the image.In this context it would be wise to heed the words of the Gestalt psychologists and remember that the whole is more than the sum of the parts, for the medium of photography amounts to much more than the chemical development of a camera image. And this would seem to account for many of the conceptual limitations of the early theorists of photography who had proposed that photography was a form of automated drawing.1
