Questions for pilot survey

1. Age? Gender? Nationality?

2. What kind of mobile phone do you have? How long have you owned this particular model?

3. What do you do with your camera phone images? (You may slesct more than one option)
a) View them on the handset
b) Use them as wallpaper on the phone
c) Send them to friends and family - by bluetooth or infrared
- by email
d) Upload them to a computer - by moblogging
- manually
e) Other - please detail

Of all of the above options which do you do most often?

4. In what kinds of setting and for what purposes do you use the camera function on your mobile phone?
a) Recording moments with family/friends/acquaintances
b) Recordning interesting or unusual things/moments in your daily life
c) Travel and scenery
d) As a memory prompt (For example, to remind yourself of something that you plan to do, buy, read, etc in the future)
e) Other - please detail

Of all of the above options which do you do most often?

5. What approximate percentage of photographs that you have taken in the last month were taken by
a) camera phone
b) digital camera
c) traditional film camera

6. Do you know how to upload your camera phone images to a computer?
Yes No

7. Where possible, upload your last 6 camera phone images to this Flickr site.

Would you be prepared to take part in a more extended interview in relation to mobile camera phone usage? If yes, please leave your contact details.

Themes

• History of snapshot photography
• Relations between snapshots and families
• storage and distribution family photography
• transition to digital photography and issues realting to storage access and distribution
• uptake and use of mobile camera phones
• impact on family photography
  

Forty, Adrian & Kuchle, Susanne (eds) The Art of Forgetting (New York: Oxford, 1999)

"'Come home, my boy', the Alzheimer ridden father implores his prodigal son, 'all is forgotten'. His confusion of forgiving with forgetting underscore the close etymological connection of amnesia with amnesty" (ix)

"The Western tradition of memory since the Renaissance has been founded upon an assumption that material objects, whether natural or artificial, can act as analogues of human memory. It has been generally taken for granted that memories, formed in the mind, can be transferred to solid, material objects, which can come to stand for memories and, by virtue of their durability, either prolong or preserve them indefinately." (2)

The dematerialisation of photography can be related to iconoclasm - the destruction of visual imagery and monuments. See 52 for a discussion of Yates, medieval memory and forgetting.
Memoria - things of the mental world have a necessary correspondence to things belonging to the moral and temporal world.
Mneme - the counterpart to memoria. The ability to remember by chance something previously experienced. (54)
The synaesthetic experience of remembering.
"We should consider the possibility that, rather than being the norm, the modern industrial economy with its attachment to material rather mental resources, may be the odd one out." (62)