Cet Art Moyen
"While everything seems to promise photography—an activity without traditions and without demands—to the anarchy of individual improvisation, nothing is more regulated and conventional than amateur photographic practice and photographs. The norms that define the occasions and subjects of photography reveal the social function of the act and the photographic image: to eternalize and solemnize the significant moments of collective life. Thus, photography, a rite of domestic worship through which private images of private life are created, remains one of the few activities that can still enrich popular culture today: an aesthetic can express itself through its principles, canons, and laws, which are nothing other than the expression in the aesthetic domain of ethical attitudes."
Pierre Bourdieu, Un art moyen - Essai sur les usages sociaux de la photographie, 1965, Editions de Minuit.