Part 1
What do I think what the world would be without photography, close your eyes what do you see? All of us would see nothing, that nothing would affect everyone, only the true magnitude without photography in our lives today we would all be lost. Photography helped us capture and transmit that special moment and if we lost the ability to take photographs the world itself would be different. I could not go back and look at my old embarrassing childhood photos just a memory that I could not share. All my Naval Achievements and Awards that I have accomplish were all photographed and framed. The photos of all my children would all disappear and all would just be a memory in my brain. Just imagine no TV, we would still be watching live performances on the stage of reenactments of whatever was happening then and now. Everyone would have to gather at the local town hall or theater to watch the local news. Newspapers and Magazines would literally be boring no photographs to look at, just have to rely on someone to sketch it out. No more Facebook, Instagram, selfies, and no more people trying to photo bomb you, our society today would go crazy. We would move on, discover something new, but if photos didn’t exist people would have continued to use illustrations as a means of preserving history. The world without photographs would be a challenge, but then we would have more free time to communicate with one another, learn something new, and appreciate what the world has given us.
How much of what I see in a photograph is real? What I see can totally be different from what someone else see’s. If I believe that the photo is real then it is real, if I can see it and touch its real. In the early days photographs captured the real representation of the scene, unlike a painter it’s all about memory. Painters can lie, but a photograph is the real deal. You will never know