A suitcase full of photographic wonder LINK It's not often you are sent a set of pictures that make you gasp, especially ones taken decades ago. Yet here they are, beautiful black and white pictures that have remained hidden, buried in a loft waiting to be brought out into the light. These pictures were taken by John Turner, a property manager based in the centre of London, and were recently unearthed by his daughter and her husband, Liz and Martin Carroll. Following John Turner's death in 1987 a suitcase was passed to them by his widow, Betty. A quick glance revealed family photos and other pictures taken for his camera club, and it was consigned to the loft for 30 odd years.
How interesting. They look like fascinating history of everyday life. Pictures that often don't exist.
I am afraid many of them will disappear. So many pictures are stored on phones and computers. We have already seen some loss with the changes in format over the years. I have often thought that if Paul's letters (and much of antiquity) were written in emails, they would been deleted by now and nobody would have them.
I have thought the same. Much of our history is derived from letters and photographs that have been preserved on paper, glass, or metal. That's all digital now, and even in my lifetime, I have photos that I can no longer view because they are on the hard drives of dead computers or on media that I no longer have access to.
My husband sent me this link this morning because of course of my love of historical street life photography... I was in photographic heaven...I've seen many similar photos of many cities and towns in the UK..and America come to that of decades ago..and I love them all, I simply could never get bored with them . When hubs got home from work we were discussing the merits and history of each photo on this link... and looking at those taken in 1938 around the time both of our parents were being born...and realising all those adults in the pictures looking so alive and young and happy will not only be dead, but many of the children like our parents who were being born at the time are also gone...yet 1938 was hardly any time ago. It just shows how short life can be..
Yes I have often thought about this, most of my photos taken since digital photography took over, are on hard drives or stored in the cloud. I have boxes of thousands of my earlier photos and a lot of slides taken from the early 1950s, but very few actual prints from more recent digital. Lisa still makes actual physical photo albums from all the trips we go on, and my daughters still print a lot of photos, so I guess we will have some records left, though less variety maybe. In the future will our discoveries entail finding boxes of old hard drives CDs or memory sticks
Apparently CDs, DVDs and BlueRays are on their way out in favor of solid state storage such as thumb drives. Data transfer by spinning disk is no longer adequate. In a number of years, the CDs will be like cassettes, eight-tracks, and floppy disks.