printing them all is an option, but it typically doesn't happen. printing every image from a roll of film is standard operating procedure, using a contact sheet.
so you print all of them that you care about right now. what is important to you can change over time.
I saw a TV report with a traditional photographer who came up with one of the few photos of Clinton and Lewinsky together. When the story broke, he went to his archive of contact sheets looking for glimpses of her with him at various irrelevent white house events.
The digital photographers who had the same irrelevent pictures from the same events had "saved space" or "reduced clutter" by deleting photos that were irrelevent at the time, but much sought after later.
Depending on your personal politics, additional photos of them may still have been irrelevent at any time, but it demonstrates the loss of a full historical record that goes along with recording "historical" images on transient media.
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printing them all is an option, but it typically doesn't happen. printing every image from a roll of film is standard operating procedure, using a contact sheet.
so you print all of them that you care about right now. what is important to you can change over time.
I saw a TV report with a traditional photographer who came up with one of the few photos of Clinton and Lewinsky together. When the story broke, he went to his archive of contact sheets looking for glimpses of her with him at various irrelevent white house events.
The digital photographers who had the same irrelevent pictures from the same events had "saved space" or "reduced clutter" by deleting photos that were irrelevent at the time, but much sought after later.
Depending on your personal politics, additional photos of them may still have been irrelevent at any time, but it demonstrates the loss of a full historical record that goes along with recording "historical" images on transient media.