December 10, 2008

How people use photography #3: Family Portraits

Here is a nice example of an old family portrait, found here. One interesting mix of the past and present way of collecting, storing, and sharing family photographs is the way that people are digitizing their collections and putting them online at places like Flickr. Whereas personal and family photographs were mostly stored in boxes, albums, and on walls in the past, for many people today they are now online.

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