The scope of photographic staging is therefore larger than is generally conceived when staging is solely seen as staging the object – a view which only serves the purist ideology of an "objective" photography in that it negates all other factors involved in the picture process. However, at the same time it also becomes clear that "staged photography" should not be seen as a rigid aesthetic category, but rather more in the sense of a strategic orientation: there is no categorical boundary between the ideal of the "discovered" and that of the "invented," but rather a continuum