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This article aims to understand photography as an object of aesthetic appreciation, and to argue that the intention in photographer can be seen in photographs. Philosophers always are inclined to employ the notion of intention in order to identify a representational aspect of a work of art. I contend that photography as an art has representational status, unlike Scruton`s claim. Therefore, I will not endorse Scruton’s transparency thesis through which he disregards photographer’s intention. Although Walton’s transparency thesis significantly differs from Scruton, he also relies on the assumption that the photograph is determined by a mechanical processes, not by the beliefs of the photographer. Ultimately, both argues that if we are unable to recognise the photographer`s formative intelligence on her product, then we cannot legitimately take aesthetic interest in the representational content of photograph. In this way, Walton’s transparency thesis has been criticised in terms of situating the artist’s intention outside the field of representation. I think that Walton’s transparency thesis and Lopes’s extended transparency thesis enable a foundation on which photographer’s intention can be located.  I contend that photograph’s causal and mechanical nature do not prevent it to be counted as a representational  art and this nature does not cause to the exclusion artist. Since, photograph’s automatic characteristics creates new possibilities for the photographer. Therefore, I am concerned here with the degree to which the photographer makes clear her own involvement without violating transparency in the construction of representation. Although the view that photographic representation isn’t dependent of the photographer’s intention has been widely acknowledged, there are several artists such as Demand and Scholten who disprove this view. Consequently, I claim that intentional and non-intentional facts may accompany with the photographic processes and photographers can have clear intention in the formation of photographic process

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