Photography Changes Everything

Within the article, "Regarding the Pain of Others," the author talks about the wartime and how photographs had an influence in that time period. She goes on to say how brutal the war was and yet how so many people had no clue how brutal the war really was because they ignored it or never participated in it. However, those people did get to relive the war to an extent and to see how the war actually was through photographs. That is exactly how photographs had an influence during the wartime and in present day. Those photographs are basically like freezing the moment in action so that everybody can kinda see what war is really like versus what they may have thought occurred during war.  Adding to that, I would like to say that it is amazing how photographs can kind of tell a story within one single moment. That is what the author was saying within this article about how photographs were able to show people who had never participated in war what war is really like and what ac

     To begin, this author of the article, "Photography changes everything,"by Marvin Heiferman, he talks about how photography came about, how it has evolved from the time it was invented to present day, and he talks about all the different ways in which photography is used on a day to day basis. The author states that photography began back in the early nineteenth century and was only used for certain purposes and was not a huge thing then. He then states that over time photography has evolved into much more than that of the original cameras being used into eventually film cameras, and then digital cameras, and even today's world cell phone cameras. Also within the article, the author also talks about all the different ways photography is being used now, such as for social media or advertising, or making food look more tasty, etc. It was interesting to really see how much photography is used today from complex events like shooting a movie, to even the simplest things li