Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Actually, Kim, I agree with you. What I don't agree with is all the bitching and moaning over the longevity or lack there of of digital. I believe that most of said b&m has far more to do with fear of, resistance to, the changes that are occurring at this moment in photo time than it does to the archival issues. If one wants to preserve ones digital images, one can. B. D. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Teresa299@aol.com Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 6:42 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Film is Archival In a message dated 6/20/03 1:44:02 PM, bdcolen@earthlink.net writes: << Uh, hello? All of this discussion of archival media is fascinating, but would anyone on this list of hobbyists and working pros care to tell us what loss it would be to the world if some of our images faded a bit or just plain disappeared? I'd certainly love to be discovered after my death like a Disfarmer, but somehow I doubt that's in the cards. ;-)>> Ask any archeologist. They study remains of previous civilizations. Anthropologists study current human populations. Once upon a time, anthropologists generally studied the male part of civilizations. Females cultural patterns were boring to them and thus a great deal of information as it related it what females did, how they did it, etc, was lost. Yes, I think that history is history and when they look back on our civilization, all our photos of us standing proudly in front of our gas guzzling cars, massive homes with manicured, fertilized, lawns could be very illustrative of the values of our culture. That along with our strange rituals of blowing out candles on cakes, flashing breasts to photo takers for strands of beads, proud displays of large dead fish or animals being held by happy hunters. The all of it tells us, and future generations about ourselves. - -kim - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html