The importance of the image

It is certain that a successful picture may replace a thousand written words and may express a thousand meanings and a thousand issues. This importance of the picture stems from the fact that it stops time at a specific moment and at a specific event. Therefore, the picture is a living, realistic and historical record of fleeting life.

What is recorded in a moment can be immortal for an eternity of time, and can be definitive evidence of many events that pass with lightning speed.

Memory cannot return to its details as the photographer’s lens does, by fixing the facts as they occurred with their movements, which if What the photographer succeeded in obtaining was evidence to achieve the breakthrough he aspired to.” The truth is that photography has entered the fields of contemporary life in its various aspects, and there has become an organic connection between it and it that is

Asir to dispense with, as it has become a faithful witness of an era by transmitting and documenting global events, as well as documenting civilizations and important events of different places and times, preserving the architectural and decorative styles of cities destroyed by wars and earthquakes and rebuilt on the basis of the image.

He also recorded the creations of scientists, artists, leaders and important figures and photographed them on several occasions. In addition, photography has spread widely throughout the world, and it has pioneers who are interested in it. Thus, photography has become an art in its own right that we can call the term drawing with a camera.

Within this context, some believe that the artistic image has a high value of honesty, as it monitors spontaneous movements and the aesthetic values surrounding us, where the camera is united in a moment of creative embrace between innate sense and artistic talent, and then the important shot emerges that requires preparation and suffering, and sometimes until the artist is free and travels, accompanied by the camera, which is the friend who caresses his senses, the brush with which he shapes his paintings, and the lover who keeps him company.

You read his thoughts. Using the camera, the photographer learns many things, such as patience and reading the meanings of divine beauty in the things around him.

The success of the image in conveying its message and the message of its photographer and explaining its content and intended meaning depends on some of the qualities and abilities that the photographer must work within, perhaps the most important of which is fundamentally his artistic and mental ability, the extent of his comprehension of the course of events, and his understanding and appreciation of situations.