Paragraph Completion - Magical allure of photographs
CAT 2007 Slot 1 · VARC · Medium · Paragraph Completion
Nevertheless, photographs still retain some of the magical allure that the earliest daguerreotypes inspired. As objects, our photographs have changed; they have become physically flimsier as they have become more technologically sophisticated. Daguerre produced pictures on copper plates: today many of our photographs never become tangible things, but instead remain filed away on computers and cameras, part of the digital ether that envelops the modern world. At the same time, our patience for the creation of images has also eroded. Children today are used to being tracked from birth by digital cameras and video recorders and they expect to see the results of their poses and performances instantly. The space between life as it is being lived and life as it is being displayed shrinks to a mere second. _____
- A.
Yet, despite these technical developments, photographs still remain powerful because they are reminders of the people and things we care about.
- B.
Images, after all, are surrogates carried into battle by a soldier or by a traveller on holiday.
- C.
Photographs, be they digital or traditional, exist to remind us of the absent, the beloved, and the dead.
- D.
In the new era of the digital image, the images also have a greater potential for fostering falsehood and trickery, perpetuating fictions that seem so real we cannot tell the difference.
- E.
Anyway, human nature being what it is, little time has passed after photography's invention became means of living life through images.
A
Explanation
Option 1 ties back to the initial sentence about photographs retaining their allure/power despite technological shifts.
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