Although the people that history speaks of may not live any more, the stories and monuments left behind breathe life into the past and offer a window for us to see into a different time and place than today.
With the invention of photography, this feeling of looking into a window on the past is even more appropriate a term to use. A photograph is literally a snapshot moment stopped in time – when we look at it, we are literally looking at the past. No crumbled ruins, no text to decipher, no incomprehensible foundations to re-erect before us. We can see people’s emotions, people’s faces at that exact moment of their lives.
Indeed, when any of us ever take a picture we are doing the exact same thing (and perhaps we indeed take photos themselves in order to capture those moments, suspended in time and space). For there we are held forever in a moment of happiness, sadness, anger, embarrassment. Facebook could indeed be one of the most important historical archives in years to come for this point of view!
Once taken to document the present, they now help us witness the past.
Anyway, take a look at these amazing moments from history where people and places we know are seen from different angles and perspectives. https://www.boredpanda.com/must-see-historic-moments/?utm_source=bing&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
Laura Aitken-Burt 