Photography is an important piece of our society and our history. I am 16 years old and already I understand how photography has changed the way people act and think. If photography wasn't invented we would never have know the many things we do today.
Photography has changed many ways I think and act. By looking at some of National Geographic magazines you can see the way people live in other parts of the world. It shows how much anybody who has a house to live in, a warm bed to sleep on, and food on the table, is lucky. People that live in poverty don't have as much as we do here in the United States. Pictures can also capture a special moment in time. For an example if you won a special award you could have you picture taken and everytime you look at it, you would remember what you did to deserve the award. Or it could be at a sports game, when a spectacular play happens and a lucky photographer catches it on his film. When someone is to be remembered you can take pictures of him or her. For when they"re gone, all you have is the pictures to look back and remember them. Photography has done all of this for us. We don't realize how much this means to all of us, we just take it how it is because photography is an everyday thing. Nobody stops and thinks how it would have been without it.
Without photography, the world would be in shadows. No one would ever know what Albert Einstein or someone like President John F. Kennedy would look like. The only people that would know what they look like would be the people who saw them in person, but when they die, the memories die with them. We wouldn't know what other parts of the world would look like unless you actually visited it, and the memories will fade and will be hard to remember what exactly it looked like. You wouldn't be able to take pictures of the ones you love or care about, to remember for life. .
As well as not being able to take pictures, we probably wouldn't even have TVs in our household.