The Last Generation to Remember Analogue

We are the last people who will remember what it was to wait for a photograph. To not know, for a week, whether the moment had come out at all. The waiting was not a flaw in the technology. It was, we are beginning to suspect, part of the picture.

There is a temptation, writing about this, to reach immediately for the lesson. We have tried to resist it. The particulars are more interesting than anything they might be made to mean.

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