Blog Prompt #1 and #2

A world without photographs would not appear any different on a surface level, trees would still look like trees, houses would still look like houses.

However, saying that, people in that aforementioned world would be incredibly different. Their "world views" would be much more limited, because there would be no way to accurately see other places and people around the world. Thus people would have a hard time imagining what the rest of world (both locations and other people) looked like. It'd be much more difficult to motivate people to do certain things, like send relief money to the site of a natural disaster, visit a certain vacation spot, or even buy a sweater because whatever medium was used in place of photographs would not have quite the emotional power that photos have.

A photograph to me is an image that has been captured from real life. Though I think photo-editing can enhance a photograph, too much of it can wreck the integrity of the photo and makes the piece into something else. For example, right now, I would not call an image that is a mash-up of two different photographs together a photograph still.