“Discarded”

It amazes me how in the US, we are so quick to throw things away. Things like culture, memories and anything a little bit old.

I purchased a book on eBay. The title “Alfred Stieglitz’s Camera

Notes”. If you don’t know who Stieglitz’s is, he was the grandfather of practicing photography as an art form. He edited a magazine titled “Camera Notes”. It was a publication for the

New York Camera Club. This all started in 1900. Not old by world standards, but old by US standards. In are notes and photos from the publication.

Anyway, I bought this wonderful book. Inside the cover you can

see that it once belong the Arizona state University in Tempe. Also there is a label, “in memory of Mary B. Stoner, long time member of the ASU Faculty Wives Club”.

In Addison on the same page is a big stamp “DISCARDED FEB 1996”. Now let that set in for a few seconds and think about that.