A journalist and well-respected art critic of nineteenth-century Britain,
Lady Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake did not hesitate to publish reviews that went
against popular opinion. One of her most divisive works was an essay
questioning the idea of photography as an emerging medium for fine art: in
the essay, Eastlake that the value of photographs was informational
rather than creative.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or
phrase?