Response to The Ontology of the Photographic Image

I personally find it very intriguing how the author talks about how in Ancient Egypt, they made mummies as a form of preservation of life. Then later with time there are different forms of preservation of life, such as paintings, and nowadays, pictures and video. It's really cool how through time, ways that people can preserve life have changed, and it's become more simple to manage to do that. Taking a picture, and immortalizing that moment has become something extremely easy and possible to do nowadays.

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