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I really enjoyed the collection presenting the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the resulting fire. There is an extensive set of photographs and multiple landmarks and locations were photographed documenting the catastrophe that happened. Throughout a tragedy there is a lot of memories left, while most are unpleasant, someone has to do the unfortunate job of recording what they can. This is not to forget the past and disacknowledge it; though the tragedy that took place was extremely unfortunate for many families, many people still revisit the memories through old photos and journalism. The idea of keeping memories is not to continuously haunt oneself, continuously reminding oneself of their losses and how cruel nature can be, but it is a way to sort of come to terms with what happened -to ultimately accept it and be able to progress. It is important to find closure and move forward with one’s life. The passed down memories and keepsakes serve also as a reminder to live life to its fullest and to make sure to not have any regrets. No one knows what day will be their last, it may be gradual or abrupt.<\/span><\/p>\n However, no recollection and dataset is perfect and this one is not an exception. First and foremost, we are limited by inferior technology as the earthquake happened over a hundred years ago. The lenses and photography equipment could not possibly capture the detail and scope that would be considered exceptional today. Another obvious flaw is the lack of colour in the photos. With colour, the photos would have an added dimension, and the damage\/landmarks could be easily differentiated and analyzed. This could be crucial in missing out on the surroundings around each subject, people and other objects in the background, etc that would contribute little pieces of the story that add up to form a better big picture. <\/span><\/p>\n On top of this, one can even say video would have been preferred as it would\u2019ve been able to capture a recollection with a viewable timeline. Modern news live coverage would have also been preferred because on top video, there are live reactions and emotions being expressed as well. There would also be more perspectives, rolling shots and footage and just overall a much better recollection and dataset of events and landmarks that were affected. Overall this is a very good collection for its time and most of the \u201cflaws\u201d are things the photographers couldn\u2019t do anything about.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I really enjoyed the collection presenting the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the resulting fire. There is an extensive set<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}