“This is a watershed time where we are moving away from photography as a way of recording and storing a past moment,” said Robin Kelsey, a professor of photography at Harvard, and we are “turning photography into a communication medium.”
As technology advances, so does the ability to instantly have commodities at our fingertips. This includes pictures and images. Photography was successfully invented in the mid 1820s and has continued to be developed still to this day.
Pictures were once used as a memory trigger. A person could remember details from the time the image was captured and tell a story about the day. Some triggered good, happy memories and others triggered sadder times.
Now days pictures and images are the ones telling the stories. A person can read an imagine just the same, if not better, than they can read a word. People are beginning to communicate using pictures and images more and more in our technology driven society.
The old saying "A picture's worth a thousand words" has an entirely new meaning in the 21st century. Time Flies
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