Photography is an important art form, particularly as documentation. Before the creation of the camera in the late 1880s documentary pictures were extremely difficult to produce and often the only form of documentation in picture format where painted portraiture, however with the introduction of the camera, producing an image in any environment because an almost instantaneous process. Thus the form of documentary photography began.
From the 1940s onwards photographers were often present in war situations and from the 1940s and a drastic negative effect on propaganda, with the truth being produced through images, the people could not be lied to through mass media advertising and propaganda, and arguably made us begin to question the way advertising was produced.
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