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Walter Benjamin argues that the industrial boom of the nineteenth century was also the death of oral tradition. According to Benjamin, oral tradition was dependent

on a "community of listeners," people who listened to the stories and retold them in the future. These people were the image and the printed text of history before the printing press and the instant photo even existed...

These people were the image and the printed text of history before the printing press and the instant photo even existed. The noisy factory and long hours of tedious labor forced upon society by the industrial revolution effectively killed oral tradition and created a void that would be filled by photography...

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