What's happened to the left and the right, above and below the frame?
We are having captured one moment, historically.
And to use a slightly flippant example,
if you go back to Steven Spielberg's film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind,
midway through the discussion, it's raised, well, if there are so
many millions of photographs taken, why have none ever shown a UFO?
Now, I know that's a slightly ridiculous and fictitious example, but
the principle applies.
If you look at, now, the 21st century, the number of images which are taken,
CCTV, the mobile phones, etc., etc.
Yet, key incidences in history are never recorded in that manner.
So, we need to think about the prevalence of the image against what
that image actually means at the time that it is taken.
And I'd just like you to just pause and
think about images which have resonated for you, your own personal histories,
your family, etc., and the circumstances around those.
How much are you invested in an image because of the memories that it triggers
as much as what it actually shows?