I’m sure I’m not the only one who thought as a child that in the “olden days” the world was black and white. What little footage I saw of grandad times confirmed as much. As the technology, fashion and character of life all change in their own ways from one period to the next, we are bound to tie them together unconsciously as a kind of package of past-ness. Even looking back at things from the 00s purports an uncannily different world, tucked away behind the incidental aesthetics of yesterday’s videocameras and baggy jeans. While obviously our understanding grows past the childish notion of a sepia-toned world, it’s undeniable that that capsule of artefacts of another time holds its emotional salience and comes to form the less conscious side of our relationship with the past.
The Whitewashed Classical World
The Whitewashed Classical World
The Whitewashed Classical World
I’m sure I’m not the only one who thought as a child that in the “olden days” the world was black and white. What little footage I saw of grandad times confirmed as much. As the technology, fashion and character of life all change in their own ways from one period to the next, we are bound to tie them together unconsciously as a kind of package of past-ness. Even looking back at things from the 00s purports an uncannily different world, tucked away behind the incidental aesthetics of yesterday’s videocameras and baggy jeans. While obviously our understanding grows past the childish notion of a sepia-toned world, it’s undeniable that that capsule of artefacts of another time holds its emotional salience and comes to form the less conscious side of our relationship with the past.