Photography's status as a true art form was first established in copyright infringement proceedings in Federal Court over the above portrait of Oscar Wilde by Napoleon Sarony.
See:
Sarony v. Burrow-Giles Lithographis Company, Federal Reporter Vol. 17 (1883): 600
Burrow-Giles Lithographic Company v. Napoleon Sarony, United States Reports, Vol. III (1884):55
Thomas
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