<P> One photography historian claimed that `` the earliest exponent of ' Fine Art ' or composition photography was John Edwin Mayall , `` who exhibited daguerrotypes illustrating the Lord 's Prayer in 1851 '' . Successful attempts to make fine art photography can be traced to Victorian era practitioners such as Julia Margaret Cameron , Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , and Oscar Gustave Rejlander and others . In the U.S. F. Holland Day , Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen were instrumental in making photography a fine art , and Stieglitz was especially notable in introducing it into museum collections . </P>
when did it become common for photographs to be collected in major fine art museums
Victorian era