Philip Mason wrote: > Somehow things got diverted from a discussion on labelling slides for posterity to one about the value (monetary or historical) of slides taken in the nineties. ... > We don't need to throw them out as a gesture because they are valueless. The vast majority of images end up as landfill anyway.
A literal example: pioneer postcard photographer from Tacoma, Wash., L.B. Waters. Waters transversed the lenght and breadth of Stampede Pass just prior to World War One, taking glass plate shots of high quality. A few prints of his surfaced beginning in the 1940s, leading NP operator, railfan and photographer Jim Fredrickson to try track down these little masterpieces. He found Waters relatives a few days too late... encumbered with pound after pound of glass, they took all the 'old junk photos' and packed them off to the dump, just a short time before Jim located them. Ironically, a few of the shots have turned up in the collection of West Stock Photography in Seattle. If any designer should decide to add them to an ad in the future, they will be paying a premium for Mr. Waters 'junk' shots. 73s, John Phillips -- Tell Tale News | http://pw2.netcom.com/~whstlpnk/telltale.html Northern Pacific | http://pw2.netcom.com/~whstlpnk/np.html Historical Assoc. | http://www.employees.org/~davison/nprha/nprha.html --> SPORRS: Serious Photographers of Railroad Related Subjects --> SPORRS: Serious Photographers of Railroad Related Subjects X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Content-Length: 2671
