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He was working off of negatives, so he marked the negatives he didn't want to publish. The negatives come as a long strip, so you can't just remove the bad ones

by ars 5y ago

He was working off of negatives, so he marked the negatives he didn't want to publish. The negatives come as a long strip, so you can't just remove the bad ones. Presumably if there was an entire strip of bad ones, it would be tossed, but most of the time it was a mix, and it was a way to mark them. Not a great way, since someone else might like the photo, but I guess he saw zero value in the poor photos (basically the same as pressing delete on a digital camera - do you keep every photo you take, even bad ones?) Don't forget - he wasn't working off of "historical" photos, to him, these were present day photos, and easily replaceable. To us these are irreplaceable parts of history, but it wasn't like that to him. > It's still sad that the censor Editor, not censor - he was preparing interesting photos for publication.

BrandoElFollito 5y ago
> do you keep every photo you take, even bad ones? Unfortunately yes. This is the problem with digital photos, at least on a phone: the effort to remove the bad ones is not worth it for someone like me who takes pictures occasionally and never looked at them anyway (this is why I do not take a lot either) I wonder if people who are not into photography actually manage their photos (sort, tag, prune)?
- justsomehnguy 5y ago
  I have thousands of photos from 2005 to ~2014, lousily sorted by the year and some events, stored on a USB HDD. The last year I took a camera again, with a mobile photo too. After a couple of hundreds of shots and a futile attempt to manage them I understood what while some photos could be of interest for me a couple decades later, if I don't have a strong desire to save some exact shots now - I just wipe them all. Of course I found myself wanting to show a couple of photos half a year after I wiped them, but the value was in showing them to a person I unexpectedly met again, not in the photos themselves. I still don't touch my old library. "Some other day". Though if I manage to organize and merge my two NextCloud instances I would probably upload some of the photos to it for the safekeeping.
the_af 5y ago
I don't disagree with you. > basically the same as pressing delete on a digital camera - do you keep every photo you take, even bad ones? I used to keep everything, now I make an effort to delete the crap or even redundant photos. I agonize over this, but I try to do it. Then again, most photos I take I never look at again in my life, which I'm guessing happens to many of us in the age of digital cameras. > To us these are irreplaceable parts of history, but it wasn't like that to him. Yes, this is the crux of the problem. Like you, I don't think this was censorship. I used the word "censor" because that's how the article frames it, but I agree this was an act of editing/choosing, not censorship.

by ars 5y ago

BrandoElFollito 5y ago

> do you keep every photo you take, even bad ones? Unfortunately yes. This is the problem with digital photos, at least on a phone: the effort to remove the bad ones is not worth it for someone like me who takes pictures occasionally and never looked at them anyway (this is why I do not take a lot either) I wonder if people who are not into photography actually manage their photos (sort, tag, prune)?

justsomehnguy 5y ago
I have thousands of photos from 2005 to ~2014, lousily sorted by the year and some events, stored on a USB HDD. The last year I took a camera again, with a mobile photo too. After a couple of hundreds of shots and a futile attempt to manage them I understood what while some photos could be of interest for me a couple decades later, if I don't have a strong desire to save some exact shots now - I just wipe them all. Of course I found myself wanting to show a couple of photos half a year after I wiped them, but the value was in showing them to a person I unexpectedly met again, not in the photos themselves. I still don't touch my old library. "Some other day". Though if I manage to organize and merge my two NextCloud instances I would probably upload some of the photos to it for the safekeeping.

the_af 5y ago

I don't disagree with you. > basically the same as pressing delete on a digital camera - do you keep every photo you take, even bad ones? I used to keep everything, now I make an effort to delete the crap or even redundant photos. I agonize over this, but I try to do it. Then again, most photos I take I never look at again in my life, which I'm guessing happens to many of us in the age of digital cameras. > To us these are irreplaceable parts of history, but it wasn't like that to him. Yes, this is the crux of the problem. Like you, I don't think this was censorship. I used the word "censor" because that's how the article frames it, but I agree this was an act of editing/choosing, not censorship.