Snapchat Research Paper

I have a very simple question to ask you. Why do we take pictures? For hundreds of years pictures have been taken to capture the moments of things important to us. Every day millions of pictures are taken from our smart phones and posted to social media to document our every move. Who you’re hanging out with. What you ate for lunch. Maybe you went to a concert over the weekend and took a picture of your favorite band, or went hiking and captured the view from the top of a mountain. And let’s not forget the countless selfies we post on Instagram and Snapchat. We all do it. But my question is why? Why do we want to take pictures? In a 2007 issue of the Queens Quarterly, Rodney G.S. Carter writes, "Photographs serve as records of events and also function as fundamental tools for sharing not only past experiences but values as well.” As a photography student, I take a lot of pictures on a daily …show more content…
According to George Eastman’s biography on Kodak.com, When he introduced the Kodak camera in 1888, he coined the slogan, "you press the button, we do the rest," and within a year, it became a well-known phrase in every household. His new process allowed for people to purchase cameras fully loaded with film, and send the camera back to Kodak in Rochester to be developed and reloaded with a new roll of film and sent back. For the next hundred or so years, Kodak and its rising competitors innovate and fine tune their cameras to revolutionize photography. These fine tune adjustments mostly changed the lenses which allowed for more light to enter the camera and drastically cut back on exposure times. So basically, over 200 years we have gone from 8 hour exposures for a single picture, down to just seconds. By 1975 Steve Sasson at Kodak builds the first working CCD-based digital