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because someone could fill a storage bunker with family photos and memoriesWhy would anybody think their work was more important than their family photo memories?
because someone could fill a storage bunker with family photos and memories
since every photo has meaning and nothing gets edited out,
a shoe box makes it so it has to be only a few.
10 personal photographs edits down personal-work to something that might currently define who someone is was or might be
through their lens which some believe is a window to their soul.
in the end we are all either asian or african if you trace lineage back .. and 1 out of every 200 males is a direct descendant to ghengis khan
but that isn't who someone might be now ... and sure i can probaly trace my lineage to richard the lionhearted but does it matter?
nope it don't .. i do have 10 images i have been culling for my time capsule and someone might see it in 5 or 20 or 30years
when i am wormy and sprouting daisies and say: huh i didn't know this guy liked jaquard looms and silted up sluiceways and microbiological landscapes,
but now that i think about it, and look at this, its a book with non sequiturs and stream of consciousness blather .. it makes sense ...
I have said it before to this group that the only "IMPORTANT" pictures that you make are of family and friends. Because of this, I prefer to take them on B&W film and never rely on electronic storage of any type. Stored properly, B&W negatives can, probably, last longer than the prints made from them and if they are still around after 100/200 years, can be printed again to make what passes for archival prints today, provided someone, at that time, knows how and has the proper equipment. if, if, if......Regards!While there are some more artistic shots I've taken/made over the years, if I had to cull it down to 10 keepers, at least 7 of the 10 would be of family members, not the "great" shots, but the real shots.
That is the best reason that I can think of to use FB photo-paper and write names, etc. on the back with a soft lead pencil. In old pictures, you probably are not going to find out what their lives were like as having your picture made, back then, was a "special occasion" that many people "dressed-up" for. I am old enough to remember those occasions. Now, please don't ask me if I "practice what I preach"? No, I am like the rest of you........Regards!These photos in my case would have to be family members, preferably showing the environment they were in.
However, the photos need a narrative. On occasion I find old photos of people at a swap meet, gaze at them, and wonder about what their lives were like and what they did.
Elaborate on what you mean by IMPORTANT (all caps).I have said it before to this group that the only "IMPORTANT" pictures that you make are of family and friends.
I do buy that Navajo idea: people who can't remember and recount their families aren't fully alive. My memory of who they were is anchored by their photos. Remembering them keeps them alive. Forgetting them kills them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/13/arts/television/13nelson.html
The last person to try to memorialize his/her life in a shoe box might have been one of Ozzie & Harriet's sons.
life must really be a drag being half dead for the offspring or 3 generations later offspring of folks who escaped persecution with no photographs
That's true.
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Holocausts, wars, starvation, and slavery tend to be bummers.
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