Baudelaire thought photography was "art's most mortal enemy" because

A. from the moment photography was invented, painting was dead
B. photography could record only visual records, not something of a man's soul
C. as a product of the imagination, the photograph could not adequately represent reality
D. the camera could record precisely what was before the lens


B

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