Are your photos museum-worthy?
I was recently approached to help with a really exciting project – a digital museum! And that got me thinking, as requests usually do.
What would YOU put in your museum?
Are there things in your museum that should become public?
Dave Houck, circa 1945
For example, we have stories of our great uncle serving in the Battle of the Bulge (and receiving the Purple Heart), stories of my farming family several generations back laying claim to what I call “Taylor Mountain,” and more recently, our daughter’s hard hard work on local stages.
These are all stories that might seem like normal day-to-day as we are living them but that add to the definition of our culture.
A colleague of mine, who is Jewish, brought me to tears when she said something like this: “For our entire history, others have been trying to erase us. With my FOREVER account, I am documenting that we were here, that we endured. With this, they lose the ability to make us disappear.”
As I thought about the digital museum concept, I began looking for examples of photo displays in museums. Do you know what’s in many of them? The normal day-to-day experiences of those that preceded us.
That’s exciting news because that means that my photos of my children on playgrounds, our family on the boardwalk at Ocean City, our fall photos of covered bridges – all of it is important to more than just me.
By preserving my photos, my writing about OUR memories,
I am adding to the definition of our entire culture.
By maintaining albums about social issues – from memes and satire to logos and slogans – I am contributing to the documentation of what our world is like and how I felt about it.
When my grandmother regales me with stories of her life growing up during the depression, I want to capture every detail because it defines her. And what defines her, defines me. And what defines us defines a part of our entire world.
So, let your ego get the better of you.
Look at your photos and video, your documents and written stories, your family tree, and know that you are an important part of something so much bigger than yourself.
It’s not just Beyoncé, the Kennedys, and the Royal Family who matter.
- They may be in the limelight.
- Maybe they have more money than you.
- They might even be smarter, or prettier, or more talented.
But they do not matter more than you.
As I looked through the museum photo displays – photos of photos on display (like the photo above from the Tennessee State Museum) – I thought about the fact that no building is disaster-proof. Every one of those displays is subject to deterioration, damage, theft, loss.
If those photos displays are transformed into a digital museum, a digital estate, a digital home in perpetuity, then they are safe.
Then they remain as something that will not need to be dug up and recreated by future archaeologists.
Instead, they remain permanent, viable files documenting all that came before.
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