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Tag Archives: history
Photography: What’s the point?
The photo fails as a historic document. It has no journalistic value or artistic merit. It is neither aesthetic nor is there an underlying message. While there is no doubt that it meant something to whoever pressed the shutter at that moment, this information is now, some forty years later, lost. Continue reading
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Tagged digitization, history, images, memories, nostalgia, personal, philosophy, purpose of meaning
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Rediscovering philately
A few days ago I made a mistake: I opened a cabinet door. Behind that cabinet door lay my stamp collection. Philately is the perfect hobby for a pandemic. Continue reading
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Tagged collecting, geography, history, philately, postage stamps, retro, stamp collecting
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