Petraio Prime
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How does it form an image? All it does is focus light upon a certain point. It forms a photo when it interacts with this medium in photography whereupon the reflected view is captured in the photo.
However the artist can manipulate both the reflecting setup (the lens assembly); the medium that records the light; the subject itself; the light that lands upon the subject to be reflected onto the medium (or even the light that shines directly into the setup).
You just seem to view all forms of photography as records of real world events whilst dismissing any artistic creativity that the photographer has - both compositionally and technically.
We lack the vocabulary for photography or never bothered to create one for it. We tend to borrow terms from painting. Photography cannot be 'creative' in the same sense we use that of painting. A photographer cannot be properly called an 'artist', even though many photographs are far more impressive than many paintings.
The issue is this: is there a causal relationship between the 'subject' and the 'product'? If there is, it's not art (e.g., a fossil may look like a work of art, but since it's causally related to something it cannot be 'art'). In art, the relationship is intentional, not causal. A painter could set up his easel before the Queen and paint...a dog.
A photograph is always 'of' something else: something that already exists.