I have adopted a semi-Buddhist attitude toward this. I don’t care. My images
exist for the pleasure I derive from creating and processing them. Second to
that is the pleasure others derive from looking at them. The key word is
“second”.
Whether my images survive is not my concern, nor will it be. When I’m gone,
they most likely will be gone shortly thereafter, except among those who have
purchased or been given prints.
If my house burns down tomorrow, I’ll probably lose them all. I don’t care.
I’ll just start over. Or not. Sure, I can’t duplicate existing images, but it
doesn’t matter. Everything is insured, though, so at the very least I can take
the money and go lie on a beach somewhere in the South Seas and tell myself,
“That would make a nice photo. Too bad I don’t have a camera anymore.”
Upstairs, I’ve got boxes of photos from various ancestors that, while
interesting, are essentially meaningless because anyone capable of identifying
the people pictured has long since returned to dust. Some of them are good
pictures, from a photographic point of view, and I have enjoyed looking at
them. But I know that eventually, someone is not going to be willing to store
them anymore and out they’ll go.
If I take images of my as-yet-unborn grandchild, I’ll be sure to print the best
ones on the best archival materials I can find or afford. Then this whole
process can move forward a couple of generations. But it won’t matter to me.
Nothing lasts forever.
--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal
On Feb 17, 2014, at 11:12 AM, John Hudson <OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I do not read very much anywhere about the issue of image
> permanency from this time forward.
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