{"id":16896,"date":"2016-02-25T07:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=16896"},"modified":"2016-02-25T06:54:58","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T14:54:58","slug":"after-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=16896","title":{"rendered":"After photography"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With the advent of smart phones and online sharing. The sheer number of images being captured poses an interesting dilemma, who is going to curate all that imagery and how much of it is transitory and how much should be kept. Just how many pictures is enough to document our lives and who are we documenting them for? The devaluation of pictures was brought home once again on seeing a large garbage bag full of slides at a flea market. An entire life’s photographic work at best to have a few images pulled out that interest those at hand the rest\u00a0perhaps to be thrown away.\u00a0 This individual must have taken tens of thousands of Kodachrome slides over a lifetime only to have them wind up at an estate sale and then this indignity.\u00a0 I pulled a few out knowing that there was no way for me to go through them all or become the curator of someone else’s photographic\u00a0oeuvre.\u00a0\u00a0These images are a sampling of what I chose but most of the other\u00a0images I saw were\u00a0of\u00a0African safaris but who knows what artistic wonder may have been lurking \u00a0at the bottom of this bag.<\/p>\n\n\t\t