[HUG] Hasselblad Letters No.3

Dear Victor,

 

             What shall I do after the digital revolution is over? When the
last bastion is taken – the last roll of film sold and Rochester pulled
apart brick by brick. When “ New and Improved “ becomes the hourly rather
than daily cry and shirt button-sized cameras attached to cerebellums
produce wall sized pictures. When everything is online to everyone
everywhere all the time.

 

            When, presumably, enough is enough.

 

            Will I look at the screen or ink print and remember that it may
not be true? Will every image I see be a “ serving suggestion “ rather than
a real visual meal? Will I recognise anything that I photographed after the
computer has expressed its opinion?

 

            Will I really want to show anyone my pictures – will they want
to look? What if I don’t want to show them and they don’t want to see
them….but we cannot avoid the damn things. What if they look at the pictures
and know I am a visual liar and I look at the pictures and agree….

 

            Enough. I must make some stand now, even if it is only a
lemonade stand – 5 cents a glass. It is still accepted evidence in the
Commonwealth to present fingerprints as an identifying mark. That is what I
will do. Right in the middle of each paper print I intend to include a
personal digital imprint – fixer or bleach should do the trick. And as long
and whorls and ridges hold out, my images will belong to me, not the
machinery.

 

Uncle Dick

 

            


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