P3D Re: P3D The Value of Photography

[jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Gabriel Jacob)]

>Besides stereo, one of my other photographic interests is collecting 
>old movie projectors. Occassionally I acquire someone's home movies
>along with a machine. They are often a marvelous record of how people
>lived, dressed, got married, died, etc.
>
>Norm Lehfeldt

Personally I don't collect movie projectors, but I did acquire an old
16mm projector with a family's entire life documented and spliced
together on one large reel. When I got it (free) I couldn't imagine
how the family in question (which I don't know) could have parted 
with it. It seems no one really wanted the projector and reel since
it had changed a few hands before I finally got it. You can view an
entire life-time of a family in one sitting! (Try that with videotape,
where people accumulate hours if not days of tape!) It was eerie 
watching the reel because you can see the gradual progession of the
couple getting old within 40 minutes or so. I have often wondered why
these memories didn't end up in the hands of their children, but then
again maybe it did and they didn't care. But I couldn't imagine this
being the case and I sometimes think of reuniting the two (film and
children).

Getting back to photography, 2D or otherwise, personally I agree with
the sentiment that the most valuable images are not the stock type
of photographs but the common ones. I've noticed (personal observation)
that most people, enjoy the informal images taken at weddings by lay-
persons and not the professional ones done by hired photographers.
That is not too say the formal images don't have a place and function,
but it's the informal ones that come out more often to be re-experienced.

Sooo, getting back to the value of photography, do they have a value?
No they don't.....
they are priceless! :-)

P.S. I have 3D pictures of a close family member that recently passed
away and don't intend in throwing them out, and no it's not my mother
but rather mother-in-law. May she rest in peace. 

Gabriel  


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