Question of the Day | 11/30/2008 11:00 pm

In this digital age, how are you keeping photographs?

Joan Ganz Cooney | 11/30/2008 11:00 pm

Why Joan Ganz Cooney Stopped Snapping Photographs

I keep only the old standard kind, in albums and in frames. I miss the old way and the excitement of getting the developed pictures from the pharmacy and choosing the best for enlargement and then framing them. And operating pre-digital cameras. I just couldn’t adapt to the new technology so I don’t take pictures anymore.

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Joan Juliet Buck | 11/30/2008 11:00 pm

Where Are Joan Juliet Buck's Old Photographs?

The prints — my parent’s stash from the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s, mine from the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s — in boxes. Which are, alas, in storage, so that when Allegra Huston needed pictures of herself in Billings, MT, summer of ‘75, for her memoir, Love Child, I couldn’t come through. Everything digital is on discs which are, as they say, somewhere.

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Liz Smith | 11/30/2008 11:00 pm

Liz Smith: 'Digital Schmidital'

I throw them all in boxes. Occasionally in my office we try to separate them under categories or names or times. When I wrote my memoir, Natural Blonde, I had so many photos of me with famous people that we used them as endpapers. But as for keeping them useful, I say, "Digital schmidital!" If I can’t hold it in my own two hands, I’m not interested in keeping it.

Click here on this text to read my New York Post column.

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Candice Bergen | 11/30/2008 11:00 pm

Candice Bergen Needs a Photo Organizer

In this digital age, I am keeping the ones I haven’t already lost in cardboard boxes in LA and NY. Some are with photo agencies but none are properly stored and filed.

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Photographs? What are those? Are those them lil rectangular peectures on MySpace???

By Kryssi K on 12/01/2008 7:04 pm

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Boxes, boxes and more boxes.

By Yvonne Faye on 12/01/2008 7:50 pm

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How wonderful of you to bring up this subject and give us the opportunity to respond because I can tell the world that last month I finally got all the photos I have had stashed away in a drawer put into my photo album. I am so proud of myself. I’ve been thinking about it for years. I imagine most of you can understand. And those were all the photos I had collected prior to getting a digital camera. I already have all “the digital photos” organized on my iPhoto program on my Mac. Did I tell you Macs are wonderful. I feel so organized when I’m on my computer. So its been a wonderful day. May you have the same joys!

By Suzanne Frazier on 12/01/2008 8:28 pm