Reply To: What's bad about pictures being taken?

Do you really believe the Chofetz Chaim thought he was a celebrity worthy of being photographed? For most of his life, photography was fairly expensive, and it was a sign of your importance that you posed for a photographer (remember he lived in the period where war pictures were frequently of corpses since no one else would sit long for the slow film of the day – exposures were often more than a minute).