[Leica] Photogs in a Digitally Abreviated World

[richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard)]

Someone reposted an op-ed from the Washington Post or something when Kodak 
announced termination of their projectors, and in the piece, the author 
mentions that one problem with most slides is that they are all about the 
"pretty things." Pretty mountains, pretty sceneries, etc. but you never 
learn anything intimate about the photographer or what they photograph from 
the slides....

At 11:40 PM 12/14/2004, Frank Dernie wrote:

>I massively regret the photographs thrown away by my grandmother when she 
>moved house. what was banal to her would have been of abiding interest to 
>me and our descendants. Funnily enough it is the family snaps and pictures 
>of the everyday things and life which are lasting. Pictures of rows of 
>shops, the market, the family at home and so forth. The artsy fartsy stuff 
>is of much less lasting interest IMHO.
>Frank

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