Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]bill harting said: Subject: Re: [Leica] If You Really Want Your Pictures to Last... > When my pictures are collected, the museums will have to worry about this.paper is > good enough for me<< Hi Bill, But if you have some absolutely smashing material that's of interest to future generations don't you think it maybe a good idea to make a small effort to prolong the life of the image? After all we photographers, all of us pro and amateur a like, have some, if nothing else, a minor responsibility to future generations because we are the recorders of our times and life of today. Throughout our lives once we become involved in picture taking, film or digital, we become recorders when we put that camera to our eye and make an exposure. I agree most people do not relate to their camera's in that fashion, however it's the truth. Particularly if you have old " family photo albums" and you look back and see what your ancestors looked like, wore or what the city looked like where you live. Generally we see these albums as something neat to look at and to learn from. Well OK, that's how I relate to them . At the National Archives of Canada's Photo Collection there's a separate collection created by them, a Ted Grant Photo Collection with all my material from the first 40 years as a photojournalist. And everything I've done over the past 15 years to date, we have tabulated who, where, when and what, which makes the collection far more valuable when I finally go horizontal and non-breathing. ;-) As you know Sandy Carter and myself just released our new book, "Women in Medicine. A celebration of their work." The first copy handed to me has been signed by both of us and noted as the first copy and being sent to the National Collection as happened in the case of my previous 5 books. Eventually all the negatives & contact sheets from WIM will be turned over to them as well with complete details for each situation. I suppose I could leave it all sit around and wait for some archivist to loo k for the material a 100 years down the line, but I'd rather know that maybe all my efforts will be available for some future photographer to look at and possibly learn something from my efforts. So I don't believe in leaving things just on paper as you've suggested for someone else to find. ted