Roman Mask
Our Masks, Our History
This mask in the British Museum came from Rome around the start of the millennium and it’s great to see, to find something that seems so small when compared to other found objects and the fact that it’s survived all this time intact so I was able to photograph it in this cabinet 2000 years later. I wonder if the maker would have cared that most of the things that exist today will be almost immortal now because of the invention of digital photography.
I keep wondering if every day our lives take on new meaning because we are all on camera hundreds of times a day in London or if this is all just noise, some kind of feel good justification for civilization.
Still photography with film gave us a a crude way to record history and preserve the past and digital photography has extended the ability to make high quality images to everyone at any time or place with few technical restrictions. There seems to be an explosion of digital images coming into the world - millions of images everyday that will all need to be captioned, cataloged and preserved. I have a few more at istockphoto.