Jonagold

I think it’s funny that people (me included) spend hours restoring old photos: removing scratches and dirt, pumping up faded color, sharpening details a bit— and here I am breaking down a new photo: adding scratches, fading the color, adding a bit of blur here and there, creating light leaks and vignettes. Because I can and because I like the way it looks.

But all this retro has raised an interesting question: we talk about this kind of photo as evoking nostalgia, but do you have to have lived through the original to feel this tug? If this look appeals to you, is it because of aesthetics or memory?  if younger people might lack the context for these images do they still find them compelling, and why?  

Procreate, Snapseed, iColorama