The thought for today: photography gives death’s life. Why? Because it simulates what was once present but is gone now.
The first proof is connected with people who already died. Thanks to photographs, we can always remind of how did people who are already gone looked like. Moreover, thanks to images of already passed people, we can remind many of our lives’ good and bad moments. Indeed, photography can give death’s life. But what is the other way that photography can give life to the final end? Is it connected with already extinct animal species, works of art, and architecture? The answer is obvious: yes.
Thanks to photographs, we can see many animal species or material objects (paintings, architecture, etc.) that now are gone, but they live in humans’ memories.
For me, another proof that photography gives death’s life is taking photos of the night sky. The image of stars that humans can observe is the earliest image that nature made for humans. This realistic picture of the night sky allows us to analyze the view of stars of a particular moment. Something took the first photo of the night sky. Luckily, we still can observe this breathtaking, eternal image. Some celestial bodies that we were able to capture in the photograph are already dead. We know it because these Nova stars are invisible to us, but they were visible years earlier. Nonetheless, we possess their photo. In such a way, we can say that we, thanks to photography, give life to celestial bodies that are gone.
What is the crucial thing in terms of taking photos?
It is a capturing of light. Without light, there would be no pictures, both those made of humans and the whole Universe.
Thus, I believe that it is a kind of proof that light is, symbolically, connected with life. Who knows, maybe it is no coincidence that people close to death see a beam of light in a dark tunnel, according to their relations. They felt that they should follow the light. How sad that they cannot take a picture of what they saw in their close-to-agonal state.
