tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904289893737482492.post6145171689732298326..comments2014-07-24T02:20:27.151+01:00Comments on James West's Blog: What does Martin Parr know?Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05730628344718432915noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904289893737482492.post-42002517071443909652010-08-25T13:55:34.765+01:002010-08-25T13:55:34.765+01:00I know that disagreeing with Martin Parr isn't...I know that disagreeing with Martin Parr isn't the cleverest thing I've ever done. Prints are lovely, but I had three albums ruined by water when people in the flat upstairs left the bath running. And as you said the negs weren't anywhere I could find them.<br /><br />As I hinted above photography is also a lot more commoditised in the digital age. We don't pay for rolls of Kodachrome, we don't take the films in for processing and don't pay for D&P. Once we've bought a camera and memory cards that's it; photography is free, and taking the time to run off a CD, nip into the shop and hand over cash for some prints seems a bit eccentric.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05730628344718432915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904289893737482492.post-28933416374947229012010-08-25T11:26:04.887+01:002010-08-25T11:26:04.887+01:00I have to say I agree with Martin Parr - and not j...I have to say I agree with Martin Parr - and not just because he is The Man. I suspect most people don't back up at all. (I'm quite sloppy but I do back almost everything up on Flickr as private photos). I think we're losing something because printing was always part of the process... the P in D&P. Negs got lost & trashed but prints tended to survive. Friends of ours had their laptop nicked - hundreds of photos lost forever. A certain manager skimped and bought a secondhand hard drive (I'd never buy a secondhand hard drive, laptop or toothbrush); it failed and he had to shell out on expensive data recovery. <br /><br />I do love browsing old photos on a laptop but prints don't depend on backups, they don't depend on migrating data, formats, new technologies taking over. <br /><br />I think we should do both. Archive them all digitally but print the best - and set the bar pretty low for what constitutes 'best'.Giles Boothhttp://www.suppertime.co.uknoreply@blogger.com