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Do Digital Photos Endanger History?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what's-the-problem-here dept.

Ant writes "Experienced photographer Jayne West wrote her degree dissertation on the historical impact of digital capture. She argues that the use of digital photography in news reporting means we could lose a valuable pictorial record of history." Much of her argument seems weak to me (precisely because digital photography allows the instant culling West talks about). The digital storage itself, though, perhaps ought to make us nervous.

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  1. Re:She's concerned with good reason ... by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 1, Troll
    Film rots, bits don't.

    Photographers who are in love with black-and-white bug me. It's obsolete. Blah blah blah Ansel Adams blah blah blah the lighting is better blah blah fuckety-blah blah. Who cares what photographers like? I just want a fucking picture of what the story's about, mmmkay?

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