Martin Moore in the Grauniad commenting on Paxman’s lecture at the Edinburgh telly festival:
Ofcom lays out how much, and how quickly, the media is changing. Every day, it reports, 542 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube, equivalent to 22 television channels broadcasting continuously. In addition, 3.74 million photographs are uploaded to Flickr, and 1,845 new articles are added to Wikipedia – equal to about 22 UK broadsheets’ worth.
The White Dot philosophy is good for many of my peers, but just once a year, some of us break out the freeview box and settle in for a summer with one of telly’s groundbreakers. BB8’s best bit was when Big Brother gave HMs a photo album of their time in the series. Everybody loves a printed photograph.
But it occurs to me that a possible reason for the HM’s unbridled delight is that they are no longer a part of a culture that routinely makes albums, except on Myspace or Facebook. So, here’s the question: including baby pictures, your wedding or divorce party, your dream holiday, real printed photos stuck down on real, physical pages, between two covers:
Do you have a photograph album?
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I do indeed – lots of my daughter growing up, although sadly as she reached the age when she became self-conscious, they have become very sparse, some holiday ones, our wedding. It isn’t quite an album, but I also have some slides sorted and stored in magazines ready for projection.
I only have one – an album put together as a present for me. I have always felt guilty that I did not do albums of my kids. It is a ritual you are sposed to follow but I haven’t done it. Am I a bad mother?
Was thinking more than usual about this when a friend came to visit, carrying an armful of photo albums from the 70s and 80s, with me in them! Marvellous. Will blog about them at some point.
Joolz: no of course not! Although they are marvellous. And I suspect have far more longevity than these blogs and so on. Nobody is going to be buying my blog in a car boot fair 20 years from now.
So it’s never too late to start!
There’s one thing about albums when you are the only photographer in the family – you are never in them yourself.
good point!!
Might start one up …