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The Extinction of the Photo Album: When Pictures Had Physical Homes
Walk into any modern home and observe where family photographs live. They exist as ghostly presences scattered across hard drives, trapped in smartphones, or floating in cloud servers owned by distant corporations. The physical photo album—once the sacred repository of family memory—has virtually disappeared from domestic life, taking with it an entire ecosystem of memory-making rituals that shaped how families understood their own stories. [ Read More ]
Walk into any modern home and observe where family photographs live. They exist as ghostly presences scattered across hard drives, trapped in smartphones, or floating in cloud servers owned by distant corporations. The physical photo album—once the sacred repository of family memory—has virtually disappeared from domestic life, taking with it an entire ecosystem of memory-making rituals that shaped how families understood their own stories.
