Photography Picture Making and Islam

In present-day so-called modern society, the photography or making the Picture has been named as an art and awarded handsomely. There are lots of houses, not knowing that it is forbidden to have pictures of a living being in Islam.
The book by Majlisul Ulama of South Africa deals exclusively the effect and demerit of Photography and why the Photography or making of Pictures are strictly forbidden in Islam in the light of Holy Quran and Ahadeeth.