…in a moment
Every two minutes, according to folks who bother to keep track of this stuff, we take as many photos as were shot in the entire 19th century. All those portraits of Civil War generals, all those landscapes of peripatetic Brits on camels in front of the pyramids at Giza, all those mug shots of Butch Cassidy and Sundance. All those cabinet cards, all those cartes de visite, all those French ‘postcards’. All those tintypes, all those ambrotypes, all those daguerreotypes. Put all those photographs together in a pile, and we’d be able to cover them over in two minutes.
More and more, this is how we’re doing it. More and more, this is who is doing it. More and more, and more and more, and more more more.
Odds are very few people will see the photograph this woman is shooting. Odds are those people who do see it will forget it moments later. Shot in a moment, forgotten in a moment — but that moment existed. That moment happened. And because of this woman — and dozens, hundreds, thousands, tens of millions just like her — that moment was recorded.
That’s pretty damned cool.
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