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Lesson 02 The Evolution of the Camera

The Evolution of the Camera

In the movie Argo, a group of American embassy staff members try to escape from a foreign country before the enemy finds them.

To prevent the enemy from identifying them, they attempt to eliminate all the photographs inside the embassy along with all embassy documents.

While they are hiding and waiting for rescue, the enemy reassembles the torn pieces of the photographs to find out what the escapees look like.

These staff members must leave the country before their photographs are reconstructed.

This story only makes sense because it is set in 1980.

If a similar incident happened today, it would be impossible for the embassy employees to destroy their photographs in time.

There would be too many pictures floating around on the Internet to find and erase.

This example points out how differently we handle photographs today from how we did in the past.

At the center of this change is the ever-evolving technology of the camera.