Evidence to the Contrary

[Ann Mintz]

Film cost money, developing film cost more.  When we were young and wild, we also were chronically broke and disinclined to spend our scarce funds on photographs when so many other options beckoned.  As a result, interesting though they were, my earlier years are largely undocumented.  

 

How different from the lives of my younger relatives who have come of age in the era of digital photography, every moment captured and  cast into the electronic ocean to be shared with thousands of friends.  

 

They may yet discover, as have I, that it is easier to achieve adult status without documentation of your foolish youth.

 

[Ann Mintz]

In fact, most of hte very few extant photographs of me and my friends in our 20s were taken by camera bugs......

[Gita]

I was a camera bug in college and beyond, carrying my dearly beloved Canon SLR everywhere I went. But it wasn't until I learned to develop my own photos in a rank-smelling darkroom that I really gave my heart to photography. Expensive? Well, yes, but far less than what today's younguns are spending on i-phones, iPads and apps in order to enjoy the digital age.

[Bill Floyd]

You said it, Ann.  I have often been thankful that I was not recorded during my teens and 20s.  And sexting?  Lord, there would've been such horrible trouble...

[Judith Podell]

"Cast into the electronic ocean to be shared with thousands of friends"- offhand and brilliant.

[Ron. Lavalette]

I hear that.

Interesting corollary: I have been photographed thousands of times, but my image never appears in the print.  My Beloved Sandra says that's sinister, but I have no idea what it means...