one of the limitations of photographs is that alot of interpretation is left to the viewer. A friend pointed out that "a picture is worth a thousand words". of course. they come from the different interpretation.
It is however interesting to note that the element of imagination is often required from the viewer - given certain pictoral elements composed in the picture, how does the viewer see it? how does the viewer interprete the ongoings?
some have scoffed - "we cannot build a society on imagination - we live by hard facts and cold science." How true. but we have first conceived ideas from our imaginations, explored it with our thoughts before attempting to verify the hypothesis. Without imagination to go beyond the fixed boundaries of our knowledge, no new knowledge seems to be birthed.
since multimedia - video, etc, seem to eliminate the need for imagination- could we claim (loosely) that such things actually make us "more stupid" and less able to launch our minds into the unknown? This seems to be an overly big generalization, but it feels plausible.
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