"Take, O Boatman, thrice thy fee"

I began scanning in some old family albums today. The album is from the late 1800's, as far as I can tell. Each photograph has a pithy little quote under it, in the world's most exquisite script. The photographs found on their molding acidic pages are objects, at least to my eyes, of unspeakable beauty. This is a campaign for immortality; photographs this beautiful should not die.

Digital photography and photograph manipulation tools grant us a chance never before handed to photographers, that is, a chance for near immortality. Sure, data becomes corrupted, but properly backed up, information on a hard-drive will never fade, scratch, or get coffee spilled on it. As I scan in these faded, mildewed, scratched, gorgeous survivors, I feel like I'm saving an entire chunk of the past.

Way more of these to come.