Digital BW, The Print

Well many interesting comments and thoughtful answers although I'm a 
little worried about the guy that doesn't know why he likes one 
pizza 
more than the other (one taste better maybe?) a lot I will use in 
the 
introduction to the training session. Thanks for the great responses.

One thing I had in mind when I posed the question is the power we as 
a society bestow upon 
the photographic image. Through our understanding and associations 
we 
give the photographic image the ability to transform and become 
significant. Every photograph of any quality or subject over the 
years becomes a document of what was and what is now not. A 
photographic image can grew in importance and significance. It can 
show more than it originally showed. 
A stupid 
shot of my dad standing proudly next to his new 1950 cadillac has 
through the magic of time become a document of my personal family 
history, a view of what affluence meant and looked like in the 50's, 
an image of a 
driving machine unlike anything made today. The simple image  has 
grown in significance. 
 Photographs  have the a power to affect us on a very deep 
human level. We can relate to images, war photos remind us of the 
sacrifices, a photograph of cat hanging from it's claws becomes a 
poster found in offices world wide encouraging us to hold on. 
Footprints on wet sand makes us think of Jesus. A simple 
although excellent photograph of a clearing storm makes it's way to 
the white house and symbolizes the need to perserve wilderness.
We take pictures in the same way "we" use to scratch on walls with 
burnt sticks-they are symbolic (although at first they seem literal) 
representations of who we are and how we live and what we find 
important.