I forgot to mention that the reason I'm scanning all of these right now is
that I'm giving a talk at ICP in New York in August on Doing Documentary
Work, covering 6 documentary projects that I've worked on over the last 30
years. I hope anybody who's in New York on August 11th will come!
Tina
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Going totally against the, ah, grain here, I suppose my question would be
> this: Why spend a large portion of your life scanning 500,000 images from
> the past rather than heading out to shoot 500,000 more?
>
> It's not as flip a question as it might at first seem. You have the
> slides. You have the negatives. Methods exist for preservation. Preserve
> and protect and move on. If it's that important, surely someone can find a
> grant to hire professional "scanners" to digitalize your work and let you
> get on with the very real business at hand, which is doing what you're best
> at: TAKING PICTURES!
>
> My humble contrarian opinion, worth _exactly_ what you paid for it. <g>
>
> --Bob
>
>
> On Jun 28, 2012, at 6:02 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
>
> > They are very subtle but definite changes for the better. So when can
> you
> > move to South Carolina and help me do this to 500,000 photos?
>
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