finery

7. Using distractions To make a social world before photography, we'd have to make a world without picture IDs; without portraits of ordinary people; one without pictures as souvenirs of travel; one without celebrity pictures; one without advertising photographs; one without X-rays or views of outer space; your global without views of foreign and exotic peoples; one without pictures of sports, wars, and disasters; and something in which the great many people had no way to visually record the important events with their lives.