4/27/10 Photo album and most of its pictures, recycledRepeat after me:
I do not need two dozen different pictures of an event that happened twenty years ago.
I do not need pictures of people whose names I can't remember.
I do not need pictures of someone I went on one date with.
I do not need out-of-focus, poorly composed, random pictures of places I visited when I was seventeen.
I do not need pictures of friends who are covering their faces so I cannot see who they are.
I do not need five different pictures of the same two people in the same place.
I do not need to feel guilty about downsizing pictures.
And finally:
I do not need pictures when memories are richer, more satisfying, and occupy far more valuable space.
I recommend Susan Sontag's On Photography. Although published almost 40 years ago, still very thought provoking and, I suspect, parallels much of your thinking on the subject.
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