Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Ted, and thank you for the thoughtful and generous reply my offhanded comment did not really merit. In my own defense, I do think that some of the pictures I have taken are keepers, and I do make a conscientious effort to make all my prints and negatives as stable as possible. I've always used fiber, fixed twice, washed carefully and stored either in purpose-made albums or archival boxes. Furthermore I treasure the prints and negatives that my grandfather made in the '20s and 30's in a tiny cubbyhole under the stairs in which he had to kneel to use his contact printer. Most of these prints were in dime-store albums, and the negatives in envelopes. Some I have reprinted. I have long been the Official Photographer of my family's and friends' events, but now the digital revolution has begun to yield faster and for most uses better results for their users. This has freed me to use my old fashioned gear to do what I want to do, and to be the unofficial recorder of whatever. So I will continue to do that, and to leave to my heirs and successors messages from the past, mostly on paper (I have made a small digital beginning, but keep stubbing on the toe of the learning curve.) Bill Harting ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@shaw.ca> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 4:41 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] If You Really Want Your Pictures to Last... > bill harting said: > Subject: Re: [Leica] If You Really Want Your Pictures to Last... > > > > When my pictures are collected, the museums will have to worry about > this.paper is > good enough for me<< > > Hi Bill, > But if you have some absolutely smashing material that's of interest to > future generations don't you think it maybe a good idea to make a small > effort to prolong the life of the image? > > After all we photographers, all of us pro and amateur a like, have some, if > nothing else, a minor responsibility to future generations because we are > the recorders of our times and life of today. Throughout our lives once we > become involved in picture taking, film or digital, we become recorders when > we put that camera to our eye and make an exposure. >(snip)