Those are wonderful! I could spend hours looking through old photos at the flea market or antique store. It's especially poignant considering no one ever prints photos anymore, it's just all digital and instant and online. I am usually huge proponent of digital photography, but the thought of snapshots like these not existing is so sad to me.
Not only do they not get printed, but thanks to the "instant retake" of digital photos, we rarely see the "flawed photos" anymore; we just reshoot a better one. If it's blurry or something, that's fine, but think how many of the above photos would have been deleted and/or reshot, had they had digital cameras, for not being "perfect"--yet they are so much more natural the way they are.
One of my favorite things about old photos is looking at, for example, kitchen products in the background--the way the old soft drink logos looked on the bottles, the Nabisco or cereal boxes, or even the font used on a newspaper that got in the shot. Many such things get cropped out of the photos now, and I think history is being lost on account of it.
I think it's hilarious that livejournal is such a wasteland in these post-twitter, post-facebook times that a giant picture post like this has people shouting LOVE! and not screaming "LJ CUT!!!!!!" at me.
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One of my favorite things about old photos is looking at, for example, kitchen products in the background--the way the old soft drink logos looked on the bottles, the Nabisco or cereal boxes, or even the font used on a newspaper that got in the shot. Many such things get cropped out of the photos now, and I think history is being lost on account of it.
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