I think it's an age related thing but I don't think it's just what
generation we're from. I wasn't at all interested in the past either
until I was about 40 and even then it wasn't very strong. But it has
continued to increase year after year.
I think you'll eventually start to see your children come around. The
problem is that they're swimming in photos at the moment but the
appreciation of same they'll probably learn a bit too late. 95% of the
photos are probably on their hard disk which is a year or two or three
from catastrophic failure.
Chuck Norcutt
ScottGee1 wrote:
> 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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