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.
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. “
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.
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.
February 9, 2012
The old internet is mostly an infringement of copyright.
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.
February 9, 2012
future standards*
February 9, 2012
dorothy do you fear change because you fear death or do you fear change because you’re incompetent?
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. “
February 9, 2012
I’ve been loving your comics on nostalgia. Great insights.
February 9, 2012
Do I color girl as Sontag, grrrl as Leibovitz, or do I through down Def Leopard.
\m/^ ^\m/
February 9, 2012
What if we don’t like old photographs because their physical wah-de-do-dah?
February 9, 2012
somewhere, a Leica M3 weeps for its lost Kodachrome…
February 9, 2012
LOVE this. i collect old photos and all my old stuff used to belong to someone else…
February 9, 2012
This explains the popularity of Instagram — instant nostalgia!
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.
February 10, 2012
So Instagram lets us view the present though the warped lens of the past.
February 10, 2012
Sepia filters! Sepia filters everywhere!
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.
February 11, 2012
Dorothy, any chance this was inspired by the screening of Decasia last week in the World Financial Center?
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.
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.)
March 19, 2012
Who misses Post Modernism?
http://www.youtube.com/garethernst