Photography is embraced more as a scientific tool than a leisure tool because of its importance in today's world. Photographs are used for military reconnaissance and for keeping information from disappearing from our memories. Following the invention of the camera came the film movie camera which led to the making of documentaries. Early documentaries functioned primarily as advertisements, but as time went on the making of documentaries has vastly improved. But in doing so it has blinded our perception to what is considered real history and what is not. In this sense history is created by the movie industries themselves.
The authors of "Video and Resistance" and Sontag have the same kind of view in the sense that photographs and movies are an important aspect in our daily lives. Without photographs in our lives today, families and relatives would not have concrete visual records of their loved ones and militaries could not spy on each other. They also think that because of all the technological advances today, people are having a harder time distinguishing between reality and fantasy. Photos and movies are deceptive in the way they portray different issues and because of it, people are losing their sense of what reality really is.
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