Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/15

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Subject: [Leica] Photogs in a Digitally Abreviated World
From: jonathan at openhealth.org (Jonathan Borden)
Date: Wed Dec 15 05:02:12 2004
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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

You make the point I was trying to make in a far more coherent fashion.

Jonathan
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