[Leica] Photogs in a Digitally Abreviated World

[Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie)]

I massively regret the photographs thrown away by my grandmother when 
she moved house. what was banal to her would have been of abiding 
interest to me and our descendants. Funnily enough it is the family 
snaps and pictures of the everyday things and life which are lasting. 
Pictures of rows of shops, the market, the family at home and so forth. 
The artsy fartsy stuff is of much less lasting interest IMHO.
Frank


On 15 Dec, 2004, at 03:58, Ted Grant wrote:

>
>> Look in every antique store that has a box of old family photos for 
>> sale. Bet the people in them were glad they spent a princely sum of 
>> money on a photograph.  I have seen enough deaths in my time to know 
>> that photographs are among the things that get weeded through, if not 
>> pitched.<<<<<<<
>
> An interesting observation. When people are questioned about what did 
> they save as they escaped a burning home, quite often answer... "we 
> grabbed our photo albums and money!"  And this is a pretty standard 
> answer asked of many survivors. And yes at the time.. "in their lives" 
> the pictures are truly important. However, after they're gone an 
> offspring may keep them around for a while, but eventually the albums 
> go into a box and are shuffled from space to space to eventually?  You 
> guessed it.. the re-cycle bin!