“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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Wonderful Metaphor! Time is literally flying! I'm not sure why your text is highlighted. Did you copy and paste from another source. If so, you can highlighted and click the big T with an x over it on the tool bar which will remove the formatting brought from the other source you copied and pasted from!
ReplyDeleteThank you...I did copy and paste the quote from the reading, but the rest of the text was written in the blog dialog box. It may have applied the formatting from the reading to the rest of the text. I will highlight the entire post and remove formatting and see if that works.
DeleteWe are most definitely thinking along the same lines having chose the same quote and mentioning that a picture is worth a thousand words!!
ReplyDeleteI agree with your entire post. I like your picture metaphor. It goes very well with what you said above about how people can read a picture maybe even better than words. It goes perfect with the whole "there are no language barriers with images" from the initial article.
Also, It's crazy to think that just one picture can trigger so many emotions or memories, yet a specific picture, like your time flies, can be 'read' the say way be people all over!
I agree! Pictures used to be available for memory purposes, but that has become the present tense now. Texting is even falling aside when you talk about apps such as snap chat. It's crazy to think that pictures can sole describe a scene or story to someone as if they were there.
ReplyDeleteYour picture is great in the fact that it conveys exactly what is in the picture; time flying. I read it out loud like that to myself before I even read your caption. I'm sure others did the same because we can all get the same exact message from a picture that contains no words.