<span>Still photography changed the entire course of visual contact . For the first time people could see the reality of another place. The civil war was the first widely photographically documented war, and the pictures of the bodies were more powerful that words could ever be. With pictures, people could see the world without traveling it, they could see people without ever meeting them. As technology grew, bringing motion pictures, and color film, the world became a smaller place in terms of being able to see it, but a much larger place in knowing what there was in it.</span>
