1.   And in that sense, at least, the new show of American photography at the Pompidou Center can safely be called art.

2.   He had his own ambitions for shaping the course of American photography.

3.   He figures as a pioneer in any history of American photography.

4.   In other words, Stieglitz, the grand old man of American photography, was schooled in abstraction by his disciples.

5.   On the face of things his show looks like an attempt to validate Evans as the Jackson Pollock or Pablo Picasso of American photography.

6.   The case has been followed by gallery owners and collectors nationally because Link occupies a sentimental place in American photography.

7.   The collection, which represents bodies of works, traces the development of postwar American documentary photography.

8.   This is a very mainstream, well-done primer to the world of American photography.

9.   Together, they form a short course in American photography.