The Album of History

For me Photography is an amazing therapeutic subject in every way and cameras helps you bring the entire world closer to where you live. It helps you recapture your memories or supports you to recap them without a struggle.  I am an amateur to this subject and I do not even know at least five or six letters of the subject.

I see some magic and wonder in the subject called ‘photography’.  

From the first day of invention of the mechanism and the equipment, amazing camera, every moment of histories can be reviewed or reread through the pictures or photographs.  

I like the era that you couldn’t change a picture of its originality / original form through any other system or mechanism.  Implantation of organs of someone else through advance technologies the modern world, photographers or engineers who work on the similar subjects have innovated. Such mechanism I know some use for various ill will purposes. Through the newest mechanism one can easily change a head of a person or a face of a person without any issues. Such systems has the ability to mislead or leads to miscommunication.

I believe that you can say millions of things viewing unedited photographs taken by war photographers of those days, during World Wars. But today, if any one wishes can misguide even a jury or a Supreme Court through edited or changed photographs. Especially now that you live in a digitalized world where you and I use no negatives / reels for private captions. I am not doubting the supremacy of the system (law and order) yet you can find evidences from history if you try to read court cases heard in courts here or there of the world, I guess.  The justices are or were always given based on evidences available. Beyond evidences what can you do? If you cannot justify falsifications of photographs provided as evidences of something, weight of editions (photographs) you can imprison a person or hang till death. Therefore I do not trust the modern photographs as true evidences of something. Unless you have an accurate mechanism to identify such things.  

Photographs / photographers still play an immensely important role as a provider of evidences of events of histories of mankind.

I guess the history of European Segment were captured through this mechanism very before the Asia was captured and framed or put them in albums.

The students of histories can use the old photographs as secondary guide to either justify or prove incidents or events happened in the past or to learn about their social or cultural or even political behaviors of human beings of gone by decades or centuries.

You can capture every singular wrinkle of a man or a woman and at the same time you can teenalize the wrinkles appear on the photographs giving it a nourishing look. But, I do not like such mechanisms.

In a way, digital systems are low cost mechanisms. All what you need is a good quality camera, no need to worry about buying negatives / reels and thinking of taking them to a laboratory or to a studio.  

I guess for an honest secret agents it’s a good tool. Though you can lists the differences between video mechanisms and still photography mechanisms, I still think ‘photography as a strong way of communication.

This mechanism can tells you or has the ability to tell you very many stories. In some cameras you get the date and time of the photograph taken / event / incident captured marked on the photograph.

There are evidences of stolen photographs from family precious albums and treasured, I read.

It helps to analyze war zones through the cameras I guess.

There are ways to capture geographical segments of a country from the angle of your preference.  It is a 360 degrees job, you think?

Sometimes, I feel that future is just a ‘click’ away.

In this modern world we live you cannot revisit exact place that you visited about a decade or so or even a week ago. It is like one cannot step into same river twice. The world is keep changing keeping memories captured with us.    

You may not see any slums along the railway tracks of Kelani Valley if you visit them in about a year or so I like to believe. Like you cannot revisit the same Geographies of Egypt, ancient or Venice or Thames or surroundings of Nile or Amazing Amazon like in 1500 or later. But through these amazing mechanisms you can revisit them in the future recap them through your memory lenses, I believe.