Photography also impacted people’s everyday lives. According to Jonathan Crary, to understand the photography effect, “one must see it as a crucial component of a new cultural economy of value and exchange” (Techniques of the Observer). The introduction of photography initiated many fundamental changes in society that had a domino effect. For example, the invention and development of photography greatly impacted the methods through which humans remember things. As Roland Barthes effectively summarized, “what the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once” (Camera Lucida). A photograph serves as a permanent memory, one that could easily be relived when viewing the image. As a result, photography soon began to be used to document history. Everyday events could now be captured with a click of a button …show more content…
The picture to the right is his first photograph and is actually the view of Paris from his window. When photography first came forth, it could take anywhere from several hours to multiple days to take a picture. Yet photography seemed to carry a certain allure, despite all these difficulties. As Diana Arbus explains, she always thought of photography as “a naughty thing to do…and when [she] first did it, [she] felt very perverse” (Diana Arbus). This could be seen in a photograph she took, as shown