Without photographs, the stacks of photo albums stored in our family entertainment center would be non-existent, and since my family has never owned a video camera, I would have no idea what I looked like as a young child.
I wouldn't know what our first house looked like before my parents remodeled it, or what my mom looked like with a perm.
There wouldn't be any photos in textbooks-- our windows into the past would be very limited (at least visually). Although I imagine that there would be other visual mediums, but photos just seem the most pure way of capturing a single moment in time-- even video doesn't quite measure up.
The way the world documents history would be very different. I suppose we wouldn't really know any other way, but often the power of a single photo can explain so much more than any number of words. Now doesn't that phrase sound familiar?
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