Alun KirbyA very tender, thoughtful article, superficially about photography, but mostly about memory, grief and our relationship with time.
Perhaps seeing photography not as capturing the present, but creating the past.
https://www.thegeorgiareview.com/posts/polaroid-death-machine/
CW for Covid-19 and pandemic related content.
By Mike Scalise.
#photography #polaroid #sx70 #memory #PhilosophyOfMemory #philosophy #GeorgiaReview #MikeScalise #covid #grief
Polaroid Death Machine - The Georgia Review
In late February of 2020 I traveled home to Pittsburgh to salvage what I could of my grandparents’ lives. After caring for them and their things during their final years and after, my aunt was moving to Florida and giving it all away: furniture and dinnerware; my grandmother’s full collection of Emmett Kelly clown figurines;