单选题 In the passage, the author is primarily concerned with

• (A) chronicling the evolution of attitudes toward photography
• (B) explaining how photography emerged from the tradition of visual art and literature
• (C) exposing an unrecognized problem in the way photographs are perceived by the public
• (D) explaining why some critics have come to prefer photography over other artistic mediums
• (E) identifying the various solutions to critical problems in photography that have arisen since its invention