A photo can have so many different points of view and interpretations that are presented just to the naked eye. People who are at the scene. The action in the scene, as well as the people engaged in the photo. There are so many different elements that are taken for granted when taking a photo. We really don't think about the actual original value of the photo, we just snap, and move on to the next sequence of events that happen. Photos are able to capture what exactly happened at that point in time. It gives the person looking at it a visual of the presentation during that time. Not only does it create questions, but it also creates a confusion of what is going on at that exact time. Of course the people that are in the photo don't get the same aura that the one who wasn't there. But that's the difference that drives people to take photos. In Walter Benjamin's essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Reproduction", he writes "One might subsume the eliminated element in the term 'aura' and go on to say: that which writers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art". It's that sense of "I have record of that event in my life", and I will always remember it because it's there to look at. So go out, take photos of your friends, family, parties, etc. Because one moment were here, and then were gone the next. So take record of your life, and enjoy it by looking at that photo, and reliving that certain event.

A Photo has a Million Questions...