I understand this, but I don't 'get' it.
I like looking at old photo albums and value the few pix my family has from
the past. I was told the families on both side were too poor to afford
cameras and what prints we have were given to them by other people.
However, NONE of the children, grandchildren, nieces or nephews has any
interest in them. At first I was surprised, then appalled, then depressed,
then intrigued.
Why, I wondered, don't they care? I asked and discovered that what their
forebears looked like isn't particularly interesting to them. We have pix
to show that one grandson was almost a twin of his uncle when each was a
year old. That elicits a shrug from said grandson.
And maybe that's fine. Just because I enjoy the old pix doesn't mean they
should.
Will social historians have to find other tools to use for their research?
Maybe, though I'd be surprised if NO prints survive into the next century.
And of course books and magazines will likely be well archived around the
world.
Seems to me this is important only if one cares about it. Old farts like me
come out of an era when making pix was special. Now they're so pervasive
they're taken for granted.
Am I missing something here?
ScottGee1
On 4/28/06, Bill Pearce <bs.pearce@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > They should all start to educate folks on the danger of losing their
> > digital images. That could markedly increase the print business if
> > people really understood how vulnerable their digital images are
> > (including all their other digital files). I'm afraid that 50 years
> > down the road we'll find there's a paucity of amateur images available
> > from this period.
> My sister is a college librarian at one of the largest college libraries,
> tenure, full professor, lots of administrative responsibilities, and the
> ability to direct several areas in the humanities. She is very concerned
> about this. It appears that in that realm, you are either pushing digital
> full force, or resisting im a big way. Not a lot of middle ground. The
> ones
> that are concerned are mostly focused on this potential loss.
>
> Bill Pearce
>
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