I have to ask the age-old question, just what is "real photography"? And once that has definitively been answered, where, if at all, does it fit in the spectrum of art?
On a personal note relative to this, I was recently asked to contribute some pictures to an exhibition here in St. Petersburg, Russia, on the "Living Gulf" of Finland. But no photographs, please (I also work in other art forms). I asked why, and was quite emphatically told that photography is not art. It does seem a bit curious to me that the works they did accept are post fractalist prints, totally generated in the computer and then printed on an ink-jet printer. The only hand-work was in framing them. As we would say in Brooklyn, go figure!