You pressed my button on this one.
The sad thing for our posterity is that durable history is disappearing.
We don't keep a diary or journal. Not very many of us. Not me.
Few letters are written. I seldom do.
Pictures are deleted from the camera & the hard drive.
Negatives are discarded.
The reason we don't know history is that we don't read and write any more.
Our offspring will have only the word of a few editors.
That's sad.
In this venue, film will provide that durable history.
Because negatives endure.
Take lots of pictures. Record everything and everyone.
And document it. Journal it.
Peserve it. Creative Memories-it.
Make it an important part of life.
Because it is. More than we might think.
Sincerely,
C. Brendemuehl
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'Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that
it bears a very close resemblance to the first.' Ronald Reagan
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From: "Malcolm Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 18:12:44 +0100
>Shel Belinkoff wrote:
>
>> If one were to look at all the photos I've posted here you'd
>> see a broad range of subjects, many light hearted and perhaps
>> funny (to me, anyway).
>> The homeless photos are decidedly in a minority. What is
>> interesting, however, is that so many remember only the
>> photos of the disenfranchised, see me mostly as a
>> photographer of poverty . I suppose that means the few
>> photos I've posted on those subjects have had an impact, have
>> been strong images, or bad enough images, that they are remembered.
>
>Considering we are bombarded every day by images from television, computer
>screens, papers and magazines and advertising hoardings, it's amazing we
>have the capacity to be stopped in our tracks from time to time by a
>particular image. Most of the people I chat to about photography, expect it
>to be about the capture of happy family events or something pretty. So do
>people not want a reflection of reality, should we not record war images,
>poverty or other things that remind us of a part of the real world?
>Photographs can make you happy, persuade you to buy things, promote a way of
>life or an image, but the flip side shows us all that is bad equally well.
>Do we ignore this genre and bin the negatives and delete the digital images?
>Or do we live with the images as a reminder of the past and present and hope
>they make a contribution to changing the future?
>
>There is no intended political commentary here, just a recognition of the
>power of photography and a genuine wonder of how images made in 2004, will
>be looked upon by folk in 2104.
>
>Malcolm
>
>
>
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