Photographs and Memories: The cameraphone represents the latest step in a long evolution away from elevating and preserving moments, to capturing and disposing of them.
Our evolution from digital cameras to camera phones, as underscored last week by Sony Ericsson president Katsumi Ihara's admission that Sony has already ceded the low-end digital camera market to camera phones, marks just the latest in a series of steps that threaten not only the photography industry, but the way in which we relate to images, the memories they evoke, and perhaps even history itself.
