A world without photographs.....
On the one hand, so much more would be left up to the imagination--without the constant bombardment of images that we get these days, our imaginations would have to be stretched. Illustrators would be able to find good work, and might actually be able to make a living solely by their art. There would be no movies, except for, perhaps, cartoons.
However, forensic and crime scene investigation would be extremely limited. Our understanding of history would probably be slightly skewed, since no artist can be completely objective when creating an image describing a historical event. Our sense of the world would be romanticized, and different cultures would be far more foreign to us, since we couldn't witness for ourselves, but must instead rely upon another's depiction. We would have no film history, no pop icons, and our country would probably be less united because the images we encountered would not be seen en mass. Our concept of famous people would come from artist's sketches. Drawing might have even separated into two distinct fields: art drawing, and scientific, observational drawing. Photography has become such an integral part of our lives--everyone owns photos of family members and friends, and they don't have to hire a portraitist to record their family history. Candid moments are frozen in time, and preserved.
In fact, without photography, many of us wouldn't even have a past. Photos are proof that an event really did happen, and that certain people really were in our lives.
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