We live in the age of "that shot". Photojournalism can be made or broken by a key image that acts as the face of an article or portfolio. Social media is commanded by a specific take out of the hundreds we shot (it's the single image that can make it to the end of our shoot, and go all the way online). Photography is nothing new, of course, and no amount of filters and devices can change its history.
The concept of the moving image (yes, movies) is a bit newer, but we're still looking at more than one hundred years' worth of innovation and magic. I think we all forget that we are actually witnessing countless photographs being slammed together to create the illusion of motion; I'm not insisting that we aren't aware of frames, but we always get lost in films and are not conscious of every single one of these frames all the time.
