单选题 It can be inferred from the passage that the author most probably considers nineteenth century photography to be

• (A) less technological sophisticated but in some ways artistically superior to modern photography
• (B) identically in virtually every aim and method to modern photography
• (C) unrealistic in its goal of excelling painting by attempting to document every possible subject
• (D) no less guilty than its contemporary counterpart of the desire to impose a certain truth upon the viewer
• (E) more accessible to viewers, and thus more democratic than the tradition of painting and print already in existence