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Looking Back: An Examination of Family Archives

With digital technology now dominating the film and photography industry, analog resources are becoming scarce. Simultaneously, memories preserved through personal family archives also are in danger of deterioration. Time, heat and humidity can cause film to decay just as the passage of time and the erosion of memory allows their contents to fade. In Looking Back, my family film and photography archives are exhumed and collectively examined by myself and my family. Reflecting upon this massive accumulation of imagery and their attached memories seems an endless task. However, as expressed in Looking Back, the greater the effort to bring conclusive memories to the surface, the more impossible the task proves to be, and larger questions about the significance of family history result.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:GEORGIA/oai:digitalarchive.gsu.edu:art_design_theses-1082
Date07 May 2011
CreatorsBentley, James E, III
PublisherDigital Archive @ GSU
Source SetsGeorgia State University
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Formatapplication/pdf
SourceArt and Design Theses

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