Pamela Bradley on Memory:
I've been doing a lot of that lately: testing my memory. But I wonder if what I am remembering is really as it was; memories are so elusive, unstable, and fragmentary things; shifting and changing over time.via Maybe I'll Be Cleverer Tomorrow A Reflection on a Complex and Often Prickly Father/Daughter Relationship by Pamela Bradley.
We don’t remember some things because we can’t, or because we don’t want to, and we might even remember things that never happened.via Harvey Benge – The Traveller by Jörg Colberg.
Reciprocity Failure writes:
What possible life lesson is to be learned when one can no longer remember, let alone understand?via Good Riddance 2015... by Reciprocity Failure.
jtinseoul on Photos and Remembering:
the most important photos to take are of the people around us. They, surely, will be the ones we remember.via I used to think the best photos were those taken in a documentary style.. by jtinseoul.
And it is so true. Thanks jtinseoul for the reminder.
Colin Pantall on Photography and Remembering:
It's strange how one remembers things without being aware on any conscious level of why one remembers or how one remembers. [..]Perhaps it might be good to reach elsewhere for our ideas on photography, outside the small, incestuous world of photo-theory so that we can add to and enrich our understanding of how images work with added engagement and added interest. Today, cognitive and social psychology might be good places to start. [..]
I can't help but feel that there is also an element of the false memory (more of which in a different post) and wish fulfilment in there as well.
The idea that when we see those happy pictures, we remember them and feel that those happy times will come again.
It's strange how one remembers things without being aware on any conscious level of why one remembers or how one remembers.via A Happy Post for Happy People (*) by Colin Pantall (*).
So take the photographs
and still frames in your mind
Hang it on a shelf
in good health and good time
I think that the most important thing that photography can do is to relate both the photographer and the viewer’s memories.For me and my ever failing memory, this is exactly what is the beauty of photography. While I am failing to remember names and the little details that make life easier in the connected world I engage in, I can remember my feelings and memories. Photography helps but, oddly enough, I also have a photographic-like memory for my feelings and scenes that catch my eye.
Remembering memories make the memories strongerPart of the reason I blog here. Memories are not memories if you can't remember them.
