Photography: Rated E for Everyone
Photography: Rated E for Everyone By: Gavin C. Mannino Photo Credit (Erik Kessels) FOAM, Amsterdam exhibit of what a days' worth of imag es posted on Flickr looks like with the use of printed out images, 2011. Photography has become something for everyone to participate in, whether taking photos or simply viewing them. I say "participate" because photography, to me, seems to be a visual event that only requires your eyes to be involved. We can view historical findings, concerts, movies, nature, war, objects outside our galaxy, and anything else that someone can point their camera or phone at and snap a picture. Photography is such an immense and complex thing, but yet simple enough that a child can understand how to do it. With everyone having a device with some sort of capability of taking pictures, the world has become this interconnected society that can communicate just through images. The invention of photography is one of the most important dis...