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The page written by Maria D. Avgerinou talks about how over saturated images have become to our society till the point where you can classify it as an era called "bain d' images" which translates from french bath of images, much like the renascence. Thinking about how we see so many pictures everyday it really shows how we have become overexposed to it. Pictures, which was once something serious and only taken on special occasions by the rich has now become something more ordinary than seeing grass. The seriousness of pictures back when pictures were something rare is something very interesting. If we were to look back at the first pictures taken people don't smile in them, which in contrast to modern times we even have a catchphrase for smiling (cheese). A great example of this is how if you are to look at any picture back than nobody is smiling but when someone is people think of the picture as fake. There is a very interesting example of this when a specific image circulates the internet where people debate its authenticity. There is a picture of an Asian smiling man eating rice, but people on the internet say that it feels fake because people in those times didn't take pictures to share something as simple as eating rice, all pictures were taken extremely serious. So when people of our modern times see an old picture of a man smiling eating rice almost as how a gen z would it is an anomaly.