I was watching the girl next to me on the bus flip through a photo album and I got to thinking about why people take pictures. Interestingly, there's a girl at work has decorated her cubicle entirely with glamour shots of herself. She's an underwriter, but clearly there's something in her that wants to be model.
Photos of people seem to be a young person's game. Most semi-intellectual guys go through a phase where they take pictures of everything. Most semi-pretty girls want to be photographed. Old people take a lot of scenery shots unless grandchildren are involved. A lot of family photo albums seem to be mercifully blank when it comes to photographs of 13-15 year olds.
I guess it's something I want to think about some more.
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