Maybe our descendents will have more or maybe not. Who is going to be
the guardian of the bits and pixels after we're gone; will they even be
readable two generations down the road. When was the last time you
(that's a collective "you") made prints of those mostly banal images?
If we want folks to know us through photographs, we need to keep filling
those shoeboxes with something that will at least draw some curiosity
from our children's children when they come across them in the back of
the closet.
The legacy of film was (is) the paper print. I cherish those
photographs my grandfather made some 90 years ago. I can pick them up,
hold them and feel connected knowing his hands held them too. I'd like
my grandchildren to be able to do the same.
-p
<snip>
On 12/15/2013 12:06 AM, David Parsons wrote:
Something else that is important to note is that most photographs are
crap, they exist to say "I was here, at this time." Some times it's
interesting, mostly banal. But they are photographs that exist that
wouldn't have before. As a person interested in my family genealogy,
I'd love to see how my ancestors really were, not the few formal
family portraits and snapshots. I have maybe 2 dozen pictures of
family from before I was born, and that's going back 2 generations.
My family's descendents will have much more to choose from.
On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 7:23 AM, Mark Roberts
<[email protected]> wrote:
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/dec/13/death-of-photography-camera-phones?CMP=fb_gu
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