I already answered but I think its a good question and I want to know others opinions. Imagine that you are living in the mid-18
00s and a photographer comes to your town for the first time. You’ve never seen a photograph before or had your picture taken. Why do you think people were so excited to have their photographs taken when photography was first invented? How would you have reacted? How has our relationship with and reaction to photography changed from the mid 1800s to today?
I believe people were very excited to see photographs because it was a brand-new, unheard of thing. I, too, would be confused and elated to see a photograph of myself for the first time, not to mention o photograph of someone or something else.
