A suitcase full of photographic wonder: John Turner

[mercalia]

I hope they are put on display in a gallery in london, maybe the Photographers Gallery.

Haberdasher's, Canning Town, London, 1938

Berwick Street Market, Soho, London, 1957

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-43782267

[Cunobelin]

I was reading an article about the problem of digital photography

There are frequent finds such as these, which give a superb insight into our post

Now they are all on hard drives and will simply be lost to posterity

[mercalia]

I was reading an article about the problem of digital photography

There are frequent finds such as these, which give a superb insight into our post

Now they are all on hard drives and will simply be lost to posterity

I do like the one with the monster bloomers

I think the issue is that who will bother to look at whats on an old hard drive ( assuming it can be connected to a future pc)? A box of pictures shows what it is without any effort at all. An old pc with its hard disc will just be tossed into the skip?

[Cunobelin]

I was reading an article about the problem of digital photography

There are frequent finds such as these, which give a superb insight into our post

Now they are all on hard drives and will simply be lost to posterity

I do like the one with the monster bloomers

I think the issue is that who will bother to look at whats on an old hard drive ( assuming it can be connected to a future pc)? A box of pictures shows what it is without any effort at all. An old pc with its hard disc will just be tossed into the skip?

... as someone once said:

I can read the dead see scrolls, but try and get a 30 year old tax return off a 5 1/4 droopy disc

[[XAP]Bob]

I was reading an article about the problem of digital photography

There are frequent finds such as these, which give a superb insight into our post

Now they are all on hard drives and will simply be lost to posterity

I do like the one with the monster bloomers

I think the issue is that who will bother to look at whats on an old hard drive ( assuming it can be connected to a future pc)? A box of pictures shows what it is without any effort at all. An old pc with its hard disc will just be tossed into the skip?

... as someone once said:

I can read the dead see scrolls, but try and get a 30 year old tax return off a 5 1/4 droopy disc

I have a drive, and a PC that will accept it...
I can't be the only one, and I'm absolutely positive that various computing museums would have the capacity as well..

[mercalia]

I do like the one with the monster bloomers

I think the issue is that who will bother to look at whats on an old hard drive ( assuming it can be connected to a future pc)? A box of pictures shows what it is without any effort at all. An old pc with its hard disc will just be tossed into the skip?

... as someone once said:

I can read the dead see scrolls, but try and get a 30 year old tax return off a 5 1/4 droopy disc

I have a drive, and a PC that will accept it...
I can't be the only one, and I'm absolutely positive that various computing museums would have the capacity as well..

but the chances are if these pictures had been digital on the old gents ancient pc, the relatives would probably have just dumped the old pc in a skip - it would be an old 286/386 era pc - not bothering to look?

[Pastychomper]

I have a drive, and a PC that will accept it...
I can't be the only one, and I'm absolutely positive that various computing museums would have the capacity as well..

Have you tested a diskette lately? I ask because a few years ago I found that neither of the two 3.5" floppy drives I had in working PCs would read any of the floppies in my collection. I suspect both drives had quietly accumulated too much dust while relatively unused, but it may be that the magnetic patterns on the disc surfaces had degraded in the 5 or so years I'd stored them.