Chapter 1, “Thinking about Photography” starts out with a
quote from Steve Edwards asking us “to imagine a world without photography”(Wells,
11). Looking at photography both as an
art form as well as a tool, and how it has developed over time with the different
technological advances, Edwards’s statement is hard to ponder. I believe the photography in this day in age
is often taken for granted. Keeping
Edwards statement in mind and by looking at the history behind the camera and
the photograph, starting with the daguerreotype (Wells, 50), a larger sense of
appreciation may be re assigned to the field. Photography has played such a huge role in documenting
and capturing historical moments, as well as moving threw periods in art like modernism
(Wells, 19-22). This chapter has lead me
to pose this question: How do you look at/ view photography, both in this
present day of age and in the past?
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