Digital BW, The Print

Djon, Mediated learning and being an archivist go hand in hand. Without
points of reference, many of those photos sitting in the archives will
indeed have very little direct meaning. What is the point of the photos in
the first place? Family memories? Personal memories? Historical context? Or
just a "pretty picture"?  It is up to the viewer to determine their value
unless a context has been provided. Writing is a great way to add that
aspect to a photo. Some of that comes in the xmp data now and I suspect very
little comes as a pencil or ink scribe on the back with a short but telling
account of why. : ( 

 

Eric

 

 

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From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of djon43
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 5:38 PM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Archiving photos and data for recovery in the
future.

 

hit the delete key and keep only those that 
> are required at that point in time. Whereas our old family albums 
> from our Grandparents contain every shot that was taken with that old 
> Kodak Box Brownie.
> 
snip

> History will be the worse off for information because of it.
> 
> Peter Banks
> New Zealand
> 

Editing is more important than saving because it hints at a glimmer of
intelligence, unlike saving. Generic "information" is mere noise.

Photos of unknown, unidentified generations are nearly worthless.
Thomas Jefferson's family didn't have photos, but somehow he did
relatively well as a person. There may be people in New Zealand who
also did similarly OK without snaps. This stuff is valuable to those
for whom its valuable, to others it's clutter. 

It's far more important to write reasonably well than to be a good
archivist, photographer or digital technician. If we don't write
something about our collections of photos, we might as well burn them.

 



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