This ambivalence toward photographic means determines trends in taste. The cult of the future alternates over time with the wish to return to a purer past when images had a handmade quality. This nostalgia for some pristine state of the photographic enterprise is currently widespread and underlies the present-day enthusiasm for daguerreotypes and the wok of forgotten nineteenth-century provincial photographers. Photographers and viewers of photographs, it seems, need periodically to resist their own knowingness.
21. According to the passage, interest among photographers in each of photography s two ideals can be described as
rapidly changing
cyclically recurring
steadily growing
unimportant to the viewers of photographs
unrelated to changes in technology
22. The author is primarily concerned with
establishing new technical standards for contemporary photography
analyzing the influence of photographic ideals on picture-taking
tracing the development of camera technology in the twentieth century
describing how photographers individual temperaments are reflected in their work
explaining how the technical limitations imposed by certain photographers on themselves affect their work
23. The passage states all of the following about photographs EXCEPT:
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