She tried on the wedding dress and I pulled out the film camera but alas... the batteries were dead. I wonder if this is the last hurrah and if anyone around can even develop b/w photos on archival paper anymore.
A before and after metaphorical moment in a snap-shot.
The shift has happened yet we still are digesting what it all means. Kodak is not on the Dow indices. Even seeing this sign on vacation made me stop and realize how quickly and suddenly images and the making and keeping of them have changed. Kodak was removed from the Dow Jones index in April, 2004, the last time I bought film. I still have rolls of tri-x b/w in my camera drawer.
How is the new technology changing us? Is it good, is it bad? Visit the Britannica web 2.0 blog discussing these ideas. Some pretty interesting minds hash out ideas worth pondering. Elitists vs. populists. Britannica vs. Wikipedia. Researching new media with my studies was fierce and interesting. Change is threatening and exciting. What I find happening that isn't talked of that much is the opportunity for remixing; packaging and creating new from old.
Picture this: Just like the warp-speed changes in language, the changes happening with and to society, culture, media, knowledge and technology are indescribable in a neologistical sense. Our lexicon can't even handle all of these changes that are still in beta. Things certainly aren't the same. Even me, even you.
So true. I have an old Pentax that hasn't been out of my closet for a while. A friend and I were talking about Sylvannia the other day. If you remember - they made the blue cubes that were the flash on old cameras!
Just a funny bit of trivia - one of the communities we used to live in had a floral shop that would decorate 6-8 Christmas trees every year with unique items. One year they had one that used old cameras and photography paraphanelia. They also did one with ladies shoes and one with old eyeglasses. Interesting to say the least!
Posted by: Strawberry | August 02, 2007 at 08:27 PM
street photography in new york city is facing a shift. here's the site for new organization that tried to pressue local office of film to revise guidelines that would surprisingly impact on everyone with a camera-- http://www.pictureny.org/.
Posted by: naomi dagen bloom | August 03, 2007 at 08:53 AM
Naomi, thanks for the information -- I had received it also via the student email alerts. Here is the NYTimes article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/29/nyregion/29camera.html?ei=5090&en=71135caff6fefe6a&ex=1340769600&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print I have been following this issue and dug deep wondering if it is a harbinger for tighter rules on public photography in general. The loose rules mean that they can be applied willy-nilly and tourists in line at major attractions are not exempt as the rules not read...
Some are concerned about the watchdog ability to capture public protests...
Posted by: MotherPie | August 03, 2007 at 11:46 AM
There is a sweet piece in the New Yorker this week, about a film found in the trash, which turned out to be a wedding movie from the early 60s. http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2007/08/06/070806ta_talk_graeber
Your musing on film vs. digital, color vs. b/w reminded me of it.
Posted by: maggie | August 03, 2007 at 12:04 PM