Hi, this is Abody and X, and welcome to another episode of The Candid Frame.

Since the creation of photography, it's played an important role in documenting the histories of people's lives.

Not only our personal lives, but in the life of a community, of a city, of a country, of a world.

And I've been thinking a lot about, well, what happens when those images that once had a home in prints

suddenly become digitized? Because for historians and writers of history, they've depended

increasingly on these physical documents of what the world around us has looked like. And now

with so much of our digital files not finding their ways to pieces of paper

and rather being online, what impact does that have on people who are trying to document

our world today? And that's why I wanted to have as today's guest, Michelle Zack, who is a writer

and historian who wrote a book on the community in which I live, Altadena,

here in California.

She wrote a wonderful book called Altadena Between Wilderness and City.

And looking through that book, and in talking to her, I really wanted to have a deep discussion

in terms of what role does photography play in people being able to tell their stories and the greater

stories of the world and the communities that we live in? And I hope that even though it's not

a discussion in terms of the mechanics and the artistic process behind photography, that

it will provide you some insight into how your own photography can make the

difference in the world that you live in today.

So sit back and enjoy our conversation with Michelle Zach.

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