Twenty years after the birth of photography, Charles Baudelaire called the medium an invention of the superficial, saying its emphasis on "exactitude" was a cheap substitute for the subtleties contained in painting, poetry, and other real art. Baudelaire's angry condemnation — replete with words like "stupidity of the multitude" — still resonates today with people who believe photography promotes a strictly surface view of the world. But two new exhibits rebut this belief — in... More >>>