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 thins, 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.
(1) Yet, despite these technical developments, photographs still remain powerful
because they are reminders of the people and things we care about.
(2)Images, after all, are surrogates carried into battle by a soldier or by a traveler
on holiday.
(3) Photographs, be they digital or traditional, exist to remind us of the absent, the
beloved, and the dead.
(4)In the new era of the digital image, the images also have a greater potential for
fostering falsehood and trickery, perpetuating fictions that seem so real we
cannot tell the difference.
(5) Anyway, human nature being what it is, little time has passed after
photography’s inventions became means of living life through images.
‘Nevertheless ‘at the beginning of the paragraph, and “yet’ at the beginning
of option 1 make the paragraph logically complete.
Option 1 is the reason why the paragraph is written - to communicate that
‘photographs are still powerful.
The traveler in option 2, the beloved and the dead in option 3, falsehood and
trickery in option 4, and the invention and means of living in option 5 do not help
conclude the paragraph.
Hence, the correct answer is option 1