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To make a social world before photography, we would ought to create 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; a global without views of foreign and exotic peoples; one without pictures of sports, wars, and disasters; the other where the great numerous people had no method to visually record the important events of their lives. The technology of photography is part chemical, part optical, and dates from 1839. Soon after its simultaneous invention by William Henry Fox Talbot in England and Louis Jacques Mand? Daguerre in France, photography was applied to document foreign tourist destinations including India, the Holy Land, along with the American West. It was also used by portraits with photographs taken of kings, statesman, and theater or literary personalities.