Photograph is not unusual and not so surprising thing for us today. I am keeping a lot of photos at home or on hard drive, and I always carry camera (digital camera or mobile phone camera). I take photos when I see something beautiful, surprising and funny. In these cases, I take them as sort of evidences, and they would reminds me the detail, such as what happened at the time and what I felt. When I take photo of people (includes myself), it always come with particular stories; what happened, when and where we were. As the memory piece, we take and keep photos.
What is more, photographers take photos as one of their art work. They try to contain messages into photo and try to communicate with audiences. These photos are categorized as art, but it is same to be with extra things, such as message and stories.
However, like this author says, it was different when camera was invented. People took photo as the memory pieces like as today, but it was portrait which reflect their outlooking, but also their identity and the life. This is why this author says “the photograph was a way to cheat death,” Thank of technological development and the popularity of photograph, we do not have these idea any more. Now I am wondering, do we have similar thing (photograph in old days) today?
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