Photographs and Memories
Photographs and memories "Remember when we used to say that our photographs are the real ghosts... seen.. observable... the soul of a person captured forever. Beyond corporal After all the mourning has gone And all the graves go untended" This seemed an appropriate poem to place in a blog about photos. I am spending a significant amount of time trying to sort family and heirloom photos. Some have been stored in albums, some in cardboard boxes. There are countless web pages, books and advice on storing photos, with countless tips. (I've yet to try removing photos from a magnetic page album with dental floss, but I am sure it will work). But in culling and sorting photos how do you determine which to keep? My rationale maybe something like this Can the subject, location or person be identified? Will investigation help identify subject, location or person? Is it a good photograph ? If contents cannot be determined, does the photo tell a story in itself? If it is something I
