Andrew Beals wrote:...Now, let's talk about family images frittering
away. How many family photos
from the sixties and seventies that are in color and not on Kodachrome still
hold true to their original color, even in print form? How many family
albums are held in archival albums with acid-free mounts?....
Maybe. I do not think many in the UK were using colour print in the sixties
but I agree that I do have some slides on Kodachrome from the
period. However, I have quite a lot of black and white prints from that
period and well before.
For example, I have copies of two B/W prints of great grandparents who
died in 1900 and 1904 respectively and several family groups from the
twenties and thirties. I also have prints showing the then family V-twin
motorbike (a Rudge) with my father and an uncle aboard, one of which
reveals the bike had a sidecar attached which my grandmother rode in (and
also records that the bike needed roadside adjustments on occasion !).
I also have postcards sent by my father during the first world war showing
photographs of the aftermath of fighting in his area (NE Italy).
These pictures are not all in pristine condition, and some are
photographic copies of originals made by the current owner of the latter
using a 50mm N*k*n lens and short extension tube, but they are fascinating
to me as family history. I am very doubtful if any CD-R or CD-RW disc made
now will be physically readable in 70-100 years time even if the software
is available as I accept is quite likely.
To add another question to those on ethics. I also have a colour
photographic copy of a hand tinted B/W photograph taken professionally of
my mother in a wedding outfit, probably in 1926. Would such tinting of a
wedding photograph to show the colour of the dress and the colour of the
roses forming her bouquet be considered ethical? I would have thought so,
while some of the battlefield photographs referred to above might now be
regarded as unethical.
Brian
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