ABSTRACT
The use of the photographic image as a form of communication has become omnipresent and democratic. This digital revolution has happened at such a pace that it seems that there has been little time or perhaps desire to understand the purity of straight photographic capture in the new photographic environment from a twenty-first-century perspective. The Palaeolithic cave paintings of Lascaux in the Dordogne region of the south of France and the narrative wall paintings found within the Great Pyramids come immediately to mind as examples of images created as a form of language to tell stories. In February 1900 the American film and camera manufacturer Kodak launched the Brownie, immediately inventing low-cost photography and as a result introducing the concept of the 'snapshot' to the masses. Digital photography replaced analogue photography at a pace which caught out the established camera and film supply manufacturers.
