Word: refreshment
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Photography is a means of preserving and renewing visual images, just as writing is a means of preserving and renewing thoughts. Photography is an artificial extension of memory, and what memory does for experience--enabling us to retain it--photography may do for memory itself, by helping us to refresh the mental images we have there, which naturally are always fading away. Photography also enables us to get visual ideas of many things we have never seen because they are at a distance; and it will probably enable men in future to have correct visual images of things that will...