The Alberta Gallery Of Art (AGA) has a 19th century photography show now. I went to see it and a 19th century painting exhibit for the 3rd time, today.
One daguerreotype in the photo show struck me, it is of a young boy hugging his father, made in 1840. As most daguerreotype's are this one was very beautiful, what struck me thou was these people (nameless in the picture) are completely forgotten, all they are and all they did in their lifetimes are lost to in time. The only thing they have left behind is the one little photograph I was looking at today. Everything they were, and everything they did is confined to that little 4x5 inch shiny silver plate.
The photograph creates this record, this memory of who they were, without the photograph they would be forgotten, such is the power of photography, it has given the father and son a kind of immortality.
The photograph creates this record, this memory of who they were, without the photograph they would be forgotten, such is the power of photography, it has given the father and son a kind of immortality.
