Imagine a world without photographs. Describe what this world would be like.
It is very difficult to try to imagine a world without photographs. As a visual learner, I am not sure how successful I would have been without having a photograph to supplement my reading. I can still remember the visual styles from my favorite children books, and they were a very big impact on me as an artist. At the same time, it also makes me wonder what would have filled the void. There does not seem to be one solution, as it seems there would be a great jump in the fields of illustrating and typography. Would text rely upon illustrations, or would it become detached at all to a point where the font type itself brought images? I really wonder what the impact would be.
Naturally, there would be downsides to not having photographs available. The sort of realism that a photograph gives is practically impossible to reproduce. However, without actually having it as a resource, it might even be better to other artforms as they would be trying to fill the gap. I guess all in all, I have mixed views on the outcome of a world without photography. On the one hand, it may strengthen other artforms as they try to fill in gaps left without pictures, and yet it may even hurt them as photography is such a valuable resource and an artform in itself.
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