Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/05/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]George Lottermoser Offered following! :-) Subject: Re: [Leica] So much for "film is forever" On May 15, 2015, at 3:36 PM, CJ andS wrote: > The shoebox is nice, but frankly, they become meaningless > objects without context. Indeed. The big archival question is, "who gives a s**t about this one of 50K or 500K or 5000K image files; in your 3 ring binders, or on your drives or in your cloud, or fire safe, or safe deposit box, or.?" Will my "family" care about my "Art"? or just the photos of people they recognize? and happen to still be fond of? Go to an antique store. Who are the people in those photographs in box after box? Why didn't their "family" want to keep the images?" who ever said the only archives that are going to make it any distance through time are: 1) The image maker was quite famous and represented in museums, critical journals, major collections and such. 2) The image is of a famous celebrity for good or ill. 3) The image is of significant, historical importance and can be recognized as such. 4) The collection falls into the hands of someone who "gets it" and can see a way to make a buck. =================================================================== Hi George my good man! :-) An absolute perfect call if ever there was! Love ya guy for calling the shot as it is! Most of the so called collections people are referring to are meaningless other than to their direct families! Those who will in the future, do absolutely nothing with these humongous collections of 1's and 0's or nothing's, no different than those of us with photo albums of family reaching back pre ww1! Like pre 1914! :-) Yep we have them in a so called safe place. WHY? Well simply because that's what we kind of do with family photo albums. :-) DO WE LOOK AT THEM?????? Not really if poeple are absolutely honest! AND IT WONT BE ANY DIFFERENT WITH UMPTEEN THOUSAND DIGI 1's & 0's! So get over it folks, go out and expose more happy snap Friday Flower 1's & 0 images! Have a nice day. ME? I'm going out on the back deck with a pleasant, but big GLASS of simply beautiful refreshing wine and look through a book of something meaningful! "DOCTOR'S WORK! The Legacy of Sir William Osler!" Quite frankly one of the best examples of a project all shot in real life B&W un-posed using LEICA M's & SLR's OF SOME KIND OR OTHER! Oh yeah and all Tri-X --- ASA 800. :-) But one of the most wonderful books I ever produced with LEICA M Cameras using film and all available light! And not one thought of techie stuff entered the project at any time! Nothing but? SEE! CLICK! Many of you have copies purchased in the past. It's been a complete sell out twice and the publisher isn't unfortunately going to print it for a third time! However I have another publisher knocking on the door to publish it as an e-book. We shall see? OH yeah and all the images? They're by the thousands in the NATIONAL ARCHIVES of CANADA 's archival vaults for generations to view in the future! OH AND WILL THEY STILL BE THERE??? Like who knows OR cares? But my books produced from them? Will be here until they turn to dust! So much for all that techie stuff! :-) cheers, Dr. ted Regards, George Lottermoser http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com