Sontag you're it!
  • Esn
    February 9, 2012

    The old internet is mostly an infringement of copyright.

  • Hart
    February 9, 2012

    Easy. Old digital photos will be so small compared to the new ones that it’ll be the way we’ll differentiate them. It’ll not be their state of deteriotation but their lack of quality in futures stadards.

  • Hart
    February 9, 2012

    future standards*

  • Wayne
    February 9, 2012

    dorothy do you fear change because you fear death or do you fear change because you’re incompetent?

  • mike
    February 9, 2012

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Sontag
    “So successful has been the camera’s role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful. “

  • MZ
    February 9, 2012

    I’ve been loving your comics on nostalgia. Great insights.

  • idkrash
    February 9, 2012

    Do I color girl as Sontag, grrrl as Leibovitz, or do I through down Def Leopard.

    \m/^ ^\m/

  • Jim
    February 9, 2012

    What if we don’t like old photographs because their physical wah-de-do-dah?

  • lcrl
    February 9, 2012

    somewhere, a Leica M3 weeps for its lost Kodachrome…

  • bob
    February 9, 2012

    LOVE this. i collect old photos and all my old stuff used to belong to someone else…

  • Stephen
    February 9, 2012

    This explains the popularity of Instagram — instant nostalgia!

  • Sean R
    February 9, 2012

    And Eastman Kodak is no longer making cameras anyway. A whole new trove of potential antiques to treasure divorced from their original function.

  • rdi
    February 10, 2012

    So Instagram lets us view the present though the warped lens of the past.

  • hnarfr
    February 10, 2012

    Sepia filters! Sepia filters everywhere!

  • Bill Freese
    February 10, 2012

    There are lots of tutorials available on how to make your digital photos look old. Filters will add scratches, water stains, cracks, discolorations and generally make recent photos look much older than actual old photos.

  • sdense
    February 11, 2012

    Dorothy, any chance this was inspired by the screening of Decasia last week in the World Financial Center?

  • jonthebru
    February 11, 2012

    I have a picture of my father taken during the “Great War” in front of the “Grand Mosque” in Constantinople on his motorcycle, he was a British Army Courier. I really treasure it. Behind him the mosque is in sight.

  • Dorothy
    February 13, 2012

    sdense – no, but this was. (The cartoons are drawn a bit ahead of time but they do tend to follow recent events in a Time’s Arrow sense.)

  • Gareth
    March 19, 2012

    Who misses Post Modernism?

    http://www.youtube.com/garethernst

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