Images Reborn

 We and our children are the generations  whose lives will be documented primarily by photographs. We are the  generations of the still image, the snapshot, the photo album, the  formal family portrait. We we discover or are given old family potos, we  relish every memory as we sort through the images. When the best of  these images are damaged, or lost, we are universally sad. In fact, it  is common knowledge that if we have to leave home in an emergency, the  two items we are most likely to grab (after our children and pets of  course) are family photographs and personal papers.
(Eisman, Palmer. Photoshop Restortaion & Retouching. Third edition. New Riders Press. Berkeley, California. 2006)