Is photography an art? Or just it is manly a social rite, and a tool of power. Given your own experience of taking picture,

Photography clearly can be an art.  Casual picture-taking is not generally particularly artful,
it's true.  However, seeing the world through a lens is always an opportunity for art to
happen--in books, movies, or photography.  What to "shoot," what not to
"shoot"; what to...