Question

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 exist to remind us of the absent, the beloved, and the dead.
• D. In the new era of the digital image, images also have a greater potential for fostering falsehood and trickery.
• E. Human nature being what it is, little time has passed after photography's invention before it became means of living life through images.

Hint:

When an option is a direct paraphrase or exact repetition of the author’s concluding sentence, it is likely the Correct Answer for a “main idea” question.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is A

The final lines of the paragraph state verbatim that despite all technical developments, photographs remain powerful because they remind us of the people and things we care about. This is exactly restated in option (1).