The Photograph: Photography and the Nineteenth Century

In the Nineteenth Century people began taking photographs that looked like paintings. The Nineteenth Century was obsessed with things. The whole chapter has pictures of things, not many people. The pictures of people are very rare and it makes it obvious that this Century was obsessed with things. They were interesting in not just personal things, but historical things as well, things that would help us remember the past. This chapter basically says over and over that the Nineteenth Century was a very item-obsessed time period.