The Power of Photography
Jim Goldstein over at JMG Galleries has just written a great article about the power of photography and the influence it’s had on the world. Here is an excerpt from it:
What is it about photography that makes it such a powerful medium? Clearly the technological innovation of capturing images has inspired and found numerous commercial applications since it’s invention. What is the X-Factor that has embedded photography into almost every culture across the globe?
Photography transcends nearly every culture and has excelled with modern political, philosophical and scientific developments to feed humanities insatiable pursuit of truth and/or fact. Yet at the same time people regularly debate photographic images as they’re always open to interpretation. It is this later point that has helped photography persist as a pillar to modern culture for nearly 200 years.
You can read the whole article here, The Power of Photography
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