Photography was long regarded as a middlebrow art by the art institution. Yet at the turn of the millennium it became the hot global art of our time. In this bookpart institutional history part account of shifting photographic theories and practicesAlexandra Moschovi tells the story of photographys accommodation in and as contemporary art in the art museum. Archival research of key exhibitions and the contrasting collecting policies of MoMA Tate the Guggenheim the VampampA and the Centre Po