Topic: Are snapshots dead?

[Francois]

Here's an interview from NPR
http://vimeo.com/71998906#

[Flippy]

Not dead, just overshadowed. They will always be around.

[ManuelL]

People are taking snapshots as they always did, but I think nowadays they almost never make it to the print. They just sit around on the mobile phones and computers for a while and then get lost if people don't think they are worth archiving. Its a pitty, because snapshots show life as it is and might be the most intresting to keep.

[Francois]

Just what they said in the interview.
And it comes pack to the interesting question: is a picture that is not printed really a picture?

[charles binns]

Just what they said in the interview.
And it comes pack to the interesting question: is a picture that is not printed really a picture?

Is drawing art or do you have to colour it in?  Ali G

[stevesegz]

Just what they said in the interview.
And it comes pack to the interesting question: is a picture that is not printed really a picture?

It is an image, in my view it is not a photograph until it is printed. An image on a screen is a replication yes, but it disappears as quickly as moving onto the next image on flickr, it is transient and so should be called an image, a bit like a rainbow there one minute gone the next. A photograph has substance that will remain that can be viewed, handled or destroyed.

Just saying I get a bit tetchy when images are called photographs.

Bit cranky today.

 

[jojonas~]

And it comes pack to the interesting question: is a picture that is not printed really a picture?

for the sake of keeping things tangible, I just hope that people don't forget the worth of a print.

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[DonkeyDave]

We have a picture wall at home, it used to be just polaroids, but now my daughter has an iphone I print out hipstamatic/instagram etc. There are no rules, just pictures and old bits of blu-tac. It changes day to day, week to week, it's just our life, the exciting bits the mundane bits, all on a wall. When people visit, they are drawn to it, but not everyone gets it.

[John Robison]

It's true I'm afraid. Makes me want to load up my Box Tengor and snap photos of the grand kids, then contact print them and put them in albums with the little gummed paper cormers. Too bad Dekel edge cutters are so high priced.

[Francois]

Too bad Dekel edge cutters are so high priced.

If you look at the scrapbooking section of some dollar stores, you can find somewhat decent deckle edge scissors for really cheap.
The trick to doing a good job with them is not to snap the scissors closed between cuts.