Things Photography Changed About How We Remember
Photography is the ultimate tool for capturing our surroundings with a realistic approach. Due to its nature as evidence, it has impacted the way we remember things from our past. From global-scale events to domestic and familiar occurrences, photography has shaped the way we remember things.
Photography Changes History and our Perspective of the Past
Instant and immediate views of events are one of the most important things photography has given to humanity. Each day that passes, we get closer in terms of globalization. Images reach a broader and wider audience each day, and history is reducing its gaps in terms of time intervals.
Major events in our modern and contemporary times are widely known and remembered thanks to photography. Photography has helped history to be reinforced with visual evidence that provides more objectivity than illustrations ever did and goes further yet from the oral tradition of previous historical times.
We can remember the past not because of our great and lucid memories, which I don’t doubt some people have, but because of photography. Even nostalgia comes into play when we see images from previous times that are unknown and almost foreign to us.
One time I saw a beautiful landscape image depicting some electric cables and a…
