Memory And Photography Similarities

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Although objects or ideas may be complete opposites, overall they may be compared as closely resembled concepts. Depending on how one may read or interpret different comparisons may lead them to finding a new understanding of each topic. In this instance, when comparing memories and photographs, they may seem very similar, but the farther one may look into to it, the more different they may seem. Memories and photographs are both a way to cherish humiliating, exciting, or just adventurous times you have had with your family. Although memories may stay and go as you get older, photographs you may keep forever, but only be able to capture one moment. Memories often relate to the important events or steps that lead you to be the way you are today. Photographs are simply events or times that have been captured in a physical way and may be kept forever. Together photographs may bring back memories that may be seen as a mental version of a photograph. …show more content…

Both are re-collections of the past and may give us information that we may have not known otherwise. Memories are alike to photographs because memories are based off of photographic memory. This is a way your brain works in a way that allows you to remember events that have happened or places you have been in a photographic way. This means that you can almost see in your mind, the place you have been before or the event that may have happened to you in a past experience. Photographic memory is not the only kind of memory that may relate to photography, but also the ability to remember events of times from simply looking at a photograph. Doing this may trigger your brain to remember something that may have been a long time ago, or had not been that

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